Orange is an open source data visualization and machine learning tool that enables users to create interactive data analysis workflows. On Orange, users can perform data analyses with numerous options for simple visualization, such as box plots and scatter plots, or more complex analyses using heat maps and clustering. Luckily,
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A Mini Gallery of Artists Born in 1860s
I used the Tate Gallery metadata to create a lifespan timeline of artists born in 1860s including their gender, places of birth and death, and, most importantly their artwork. To access my mini gallery, click here (click on the Timeline button for the gallery and About button for the information about
Continue readingLGBT History at Carleton for the Past Twenty-Five Years
Members: Alief Moulana, Saahithi Rao Topic and Objective: LGBTQ+ history at Carleton for the past twenty-five years. We want to gather all LGBTQ+ history-related information at Carleton into a single timeline that accumulates personal stories, newspapers articles, oral histories, and facts describing the progress of LGBTQ+ rights and life at Carleton. Methodology: We
Continue readingOn 3D Modeling
For which research questions should we use 3D modeling? In a digital humanities project, ideally, we provide an accessible interface accessible to the users. That accessibility could sometimes be improved by 3D visualization, but sometimes it could not. For example, consider a project where we investigate a Javanese village civilization
Continue readingHumanities and Programming (and My Experience with Programming)
Should Humanists Learn How to Code? Yes. The birth of big data, the computer optimization under the Moore’s Law, and the expansion of the field of computer science have significantly advanced the academia world. In biology, the field I am most familiar with, for example, the modern sequencing platform has
Continue readingHTML/CSS Beginner Intro
I am new to both HTML and CSS. The beginner tutorials on HTML Dog helped me a lot to understand the basics of HTML and CSS, especially in such a short time. In this post, I will describe my experience learning HTML and CSS in under three hours. First, HTML.
Continue readingRobots Reading Vogue
Introduction I decided to explore Robots Reading Vogue, a project created by Lindsay King and Peter Leonard at Yale University Library. This project combines fashion and data mining to produce a website that visualizes various interesting data related to the Vogue magazine. Sub-projects include word usage analysis, theme self-organization, random memo generation, and
Continue readingFirst SketchUp Model (Alief)
Here I have some images from the SketchUp model of my childhood house. In this model, I encountered some challenges in creating the stairs on the front of the house. However, after several youtube tutorials, I succeeded in producing a relatively accurate representation of the stairs. This is actually a
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