HUMA5630 students merge technology and humanities in 6 remarkable Digital Humanities Projects
This year, six remarkable digital humanities projects were created by 13 postgraduate students from the course “HUMA5630 Digital Humanities”, lectured by Dr. Qiuzi GUO (HUMA/LIB) and administered by Holly CHAN (LIB).
Most of the students in this course came from humanities backgrounds with little or no coding experience. Through this course, they learnt how to use Python to do data analysis, data visualization, and build their own websites or applications from scratch. The students leveraged data analysis and visualization skills, and some groups even incorporated AI technologies to creatively reinterpret humanities data. You can see the students took everything they learnt in this course and applied them in their projects. Let’s visit their projects by clicking the links below!
A Study on Marco Polo’s View of China
WEI Le, WONG Ching Man
Let Wang Shuhui’s The Romance of the West Chamber come alive
DU Yiwen, GU Jingran, LI Lujun
A study on “The Classic of Mountains and Seas”
HAN Xuan, SHEN Xiaohan, WU Yutong, YUAN Yuchen
Social media opinion analysis of Sauvignon Blanc and Lotus House
CHEN Ming, HE Shu
Text Analysis on the Lyrics of Pop Music in 2020s
DENG Junwei
A Coursera recommender system PathFinder, powered by AutoGen
XU Kaiyan
Curious about how the students create these digital humanities projects? All of their source code has been released on our GitHub (https://github.com/HUMA5630-Digital-Humanities), which we aim to promote a sustainable cycle of knowledge sharing. We encourage you to check out their work and be inspired by the boundless possibilities at the intersection of technology and the humanities.
All student projects from the course HUMA5630 over the years: https://digitalhumanities.hkust.edu.hk/studentprojects/