Data and Databases

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss our readings
• Pandas demo and project questions
• slides

  Assigned Materials

• David Eltis et al., Slave Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, https://www.slavevoyages.org/
• D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. Chapter 1 “The Power Chapter.” In Data Feminism. The MIT Press, 2020. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4660/chapter/213285/The-Power-Chapter.
• Onuoha, Mimi. “The Library of Missing Datasets.” https://mimionuoha.com/the-library-of-missing-datasets.

Assignments

• Continue working on the project. Come prepared with roadblocks or questions on Thursday.