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:

• Digital Scholarship Librarian, Megan Kudzia, for assistance cleaning the original data set with OpenRefine.

• Alice Lynn McMichael and Jack Biggs from LEADR for teaching us how to use Tableau Public to visualize our data.

• H-Net Systems Administrator, Dennis Boone, for providing us with our data set.