
ABOUT THE PROJECT
This project represents the cumulative efforts of undergraduates enrolled in the Digital Humanities minor at Michigan State University and reflects the extent of their efforts to clean a patchy data set, review relevant online resources, generate data visualizations using an unfamiliar digital tool, collaborate across disciplines, and assemble a website to display accumulated findings. The students were given a list of job postings taken from H-Net, an all-purposes resource for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, for the years 2011-2019 and asked to discover potential research questions that could be answered using the data. Over the course of a semester, the students convened bi-weekly to construct and enhance their project while also utilizing their course instructor and various campus resources to complete their task. In particular we would like to thank:
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Digital Scholarship Librarian, Megan Kudzia, for assistance cleaning the original data set with OpenRefine.
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Alice Lynn McMichael and Jack Biggs from LEADR for teaching us how to use Tableau Public to visualize our data.
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H-Net Systems Administrator, Dennis Boone, for providing us with our data set.
Visualizations
The following images were created in Tableau, an analytics platform for visualizing data. The data was taken from the H-Net Job Guide database for the years 2011 to 2018. The independent variable given was the number of job postings. After exploring and formatting the data set, we chose to focus on the most reliable data which includes postdate, institution name, country/state, and area of study ("Primary Category"). Expanding on our data set, we created two additional categories: academic consortium and regional accreditation.
























