Material can be downloaded here
- Introduction to Cultural Analytics & Wikipedia as Data Source (10 min)
– What is cultural analytics in digital humanities?
– Why Wikipedia? Structured knowledge, multilingual coverage, API access
– What is a graph in digital humanities? (intertextuality, networks, themes) - Hands-On Datathon Challenge: Graphs for Cultural Modelling (40 min)
– Overview of the datathon challenge: building curated graphs
— Modelling teasing: Writers in EU and LATAM (Abya Yala) and Films [Gist]
— Intellectuals in Abya Yala (Latin America) & Eastern Europe
– Building knowledge graphs from Wikipedia data with a situated perspective
– Live graph: exploring connections between authors, works, and themes
(graph querying/analytics) [GitHub] - Conclusions and Discussion (5-10 mins)
A detailed description of a 3 hours version of the tutorial can be found here:
– Vargas-Solar, G., & Josiowicz, A. (2025). Networks of knowledge: Graph analytics for bridging human and data sciences. A hands-on tutorial exploring epistemic influence, intellectual history, and data justice through interdisciplinary graph analysis. https://arxiv.org/abs/xxxx.xxxxx
Read the full paper with the theoretical background:
Vargas-Solar, G., & Josiowicz, A. (2025). Networks of knowledge: Graph analytics for bridging human and data sciences. A hands-on tutorial exploring epistemic influence, intellectual history, and data justice through interdisciplinary graph analysis. In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2025), Short Papers and Workshops. Springer, Tampere, Finland, September 23 – 26 (To appear)