Digital Scholarship and Research Data Workshops (Sep – Nov 2024)

Digital humanities is a new form of research increasingly embraced by scholars in arts and humanities. This seminar will show you:

• Concepts of digital humanities research and the research methods used
• How to apply popular digital tools on GIS, text mining and analysis, data and network visualisation, etc. in digital humanities research
• Examples on digital humanities research projects from worldwide to illustrate the use of research methods and tools used

Invited speaker: Dr. Kwong-cheong WONG, Programme Director and Senior Lecturer, Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, CUHK

Content:

This workshop introduces the key aspects of data analysis and visualization in data science using R. The topics covered include filtering and selecting relevant data, transforming data for analysis, summarizing data, creating informative data visualizations for exploration and presentation, and model building using machine learning techniques. Participants will acquire practical skills in R by working on a data analysis project.

Remarks:
Participants are required to bring their device for hands-on practice.

Research data management refers to the collection, analysis, archive, sharing, and reuse of research data. This workshop will introduce the principles in managing data, the practice of managing and depositing research data. It will also emphasize how sharing and reuse of research data influences your research impact.

The CUHK Research Data Repository is the University’s research data repository. It aims to facilitate CUHK researchers to deposit, publish, and curate their research data outputs and for the worldwide to discover, access, and reuse the data. This workshop will introduce the features of the CUHK Research Data Repository and the effective methods for better data self-management, including publishing and sharing data in the Repository, and depositing data for peer review.

This online workshop will introduce the concept of text analysis and a few examples of text analysis tools. An online text analysing tool – Voyant Tools (http://www.voyant-tools.org/) will be demonstrated to give handy results of textual materials, no matter they are in text file or online.

A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that outlines how research data are managed in a research project. Some funding agencies require researchers to prepare a DMP at the proposal preparation stage.  CUHK has been affiliated with DMPTool, on which the CUHK Data Management Plan Template and templates of some popular funding agencies are also available. Besides introducing the rationale of having a DMP, this workshop will guide you to write a DMP with DMPTool.

Gephi is a free software for visualisation and exploration of graphs and networks. This workshop will demonstrate the use of the software in turning your data into network graphs to discover hidden message.

Remarks:
Participants can install Gephi 0.10.1 (https://gephi.org/) and related plugins in their device.

Invited speaker: Mr Gilbert YEUNG, GIS Analyst, Esri China (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Conducted by ArcGIS vendor, this seminar will introduce the concept of Geographic Information System (GIS) and its use in research.  It will also cover the use of the software ArcGIS with illustration from examples of research projects.