Z604/Z672 Comic Books and Their Readers

Digital and Empirical Methods for Studying Readership and Fandom
Spring 2024

12:40 - 15:15 Wednesday, Sycamore Hall (SY) 103

Instructor: Associate Professor John A. Walsh, jawalsh@indiana.edu.
Office Hours: Schedule at https://fantastical.app/jawalsh-r1Wz/office-hours.

Associate Instructor: Alex Wingate, alewinga@iu.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1:30pm-2:45pm, and by appointment (click Zoom link in Alex’s profile)

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OpenRefine Lab

Instructions

In this lab, you will work on cleaning data in some portions of one of the raw Comics as data CSV files

1. Choose one of the three files (NY, Non-NY, or Canada/Mexico)
2. Import that CSV into OpenRefine and create a project
3. Perform 6 actions to clean the sheet and document how you did them
   1. Example action and documentation: “I trimmed the leading/ending white-spaces in all columns by going to All > Edit all columns > Trim leading and trailing whitespace.”
   2. You can choose to focus on a single column or work on several.

      To turn in

      • A document stating which CSV file you were working with and the steps you took.

Turn in to the “Week 9 Lab” assignment alongside the files for the other lab you chose.