3. Working with Text: Git Versioning and Archiving Your Data

Written on May 3rd , 2024 by Nathan Gibson

Git Versioning and Archiving Your Data

Image: Generated with Stable Diffusion in DiffusionBee 2.5.1 (model Default_SDB_0.1, style photographic) from the prompt "A row of different-colored VW Beetles indoors in a museum".

Learning objective

Be able to use basic features of git to track changes to your data.

Required Readings

• Berry, The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities (2011)

Zotero: Further Reading (optional)

Assignments

1. Experiment with the RegEx tutorial here. You can make your own copy or you can edit rows 30 and below.
2. Download and install Visual Studio Code.
3. Come with 1-2 ideas of the kinds of data (or specific datasets) you might want to work on during this course. These should be focused on a research question you want to try to answer.