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Unit I: Introduction to the Spatial Humanities

1.1 The Evolution of Spatial Thinking in the Humanities

1.1.1 Early Foundations: The General Spatial Turn
1.1.2 Theories of Space
1.1.3 Emergence GIS and Maps as Cultural Artifacts
1.1.4 The Geographic Turn in the New Millennium
1.1.5 End of Unit Activity: from Text to Spatial Inquiry

Drag-and-Drop activity on Spatial Theories

Frankenstein Atlas Multiple Choice

Unit II: GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities

2.1 Introducing GIS

2.1.1 What is a Geographic Information System (GIS)
2.1.2 Brief History of GIS

2.2 Building a GIS Vocabulary

2.2.1 Spatial Thinking I: Decomposition & Scale
2.2.2 Spatial Thinking II: Objects & Fields
2.2.3 Representing the World I: Standards
2.2.4 Representing the World II: Attributes & Tables
2.2.5 Representing the World III: Location

Interpreting Different Scales

Why Scale Matters

Why Objects & Fields Matter

Why Categories Matter

2.3 Translating the Humanities Object

2.3.1 Representing Geographic Concepts Digitally
2.3.2 Map Layers and Projects
2.3.3 Dealing with Error and Uncertainty

Expressed as Vector

Expressed as Raster

Unit III: Step-by-step GIS guide

3.1 Background & Setting-up

3.1.1 Background
3.1.2 Downloading QGIS and QuickMapServices
3.1.3 Getting the Data

FrankensteinAtlas_data

3.2 Working with QGIS

3.2.1 Getting started with QGIS
3.2.2 Importing and interacting with CSV data
3.2.3 Importing and interacting with shapefiles
3.2.4 Adding polygons
3.2.5. Creating layers by attribute and applying a heatmap
3.2.6 Creating layouts

3.3 Concluding the Walkthrough

3.3.1 Final Reflections
3.3.2 Bibliography of Sources and Resources

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