Cultural Analytics

About this Community of Practice

Members of the Cultural Analytics community of practice use computational methods in concert with cultural data to undertake research in the humanities and social sciences. We understand “cultural data” in a broad sense. Members’ research encompasses everything from early modern print and images to newspaper archives, music transcriptions, social media, and more. To all such data-driven research the group adds a key dimension: active awareness of, and critique about, the many ways data and society intersect.

Members collaboratively decide on our topics, themes, discussions, and readings. Typically we host speakers, run open research presentations, and hold conversations and tutorials about particular methods.

The Cultural Analytics community of practice is co-sponsored by the DataLab and the UC Davis English Department.

Membership

Participation is open to anyone at UC Davis, at any skill level. Members of this group tend to align themselves with research communities in the digital humanities, media studies, science and technology studies, linguistics, and computational social science.

Meet-ups and Events

2023-2024 Academic Year Theme: Text as Data