One powerful tool you can use to build automated applications and workflows is the Automator application built into every Mac. In this tutorial, we’ll talk about how to use Automator to manipulate text and PDF files. Automator is good for doing repetitive tasks very quickly, and on its own. For
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Update to Carletonian project
Progress So far, we received a whole lot of PDFs from the digital archivist, one for every page of every issue of the Carletonian, on a thumb drive. We’ve converted all of these into text files. However, when we realized that VoyantTools has a limit on how many files you
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Visualizing with ArcGIS where where artists featured in Tate Gallery came from and what mediums they used in the 1860s. midterm.orenlieberkotz.org By Oren Lieber-Kotz
Continue readingRobots Reading the Carletonian
Members in Group: Oren and Chris Project Definition: We will use the digital records of the Carletonian 1965-2015 to track the interests of Carleton students over time as well as the evolution of the newspaper itself. Proposed Methodology Data: For our project we hope to be able to use Carletonian issues
Continue readingCoding and Communication in the Humanities
Over the last few classes, we’ve been exploring coding basics and the arguments on either side of the ‘should humanities students learn to code?’ debate. In the process of playing with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as I worked on the simple project of creating an interactive, HTML version of my
Continue readingWriting my resume in an HTML/CSS document
To get acquainted with HTML and CSS, I chose to rewrite my resume in the form of a ‘webpage.’ This small project allowed to get really acquainted with the tools the languages have to deal with text and spacing- on the HTML side, this meant using the heading and list
Continue readingReverse Engineering ‘Mapping Inequality’
Mapping Inequality is a 2015 project created by the University of Richmond that geographically visualizes and organizes New Deal-era data from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation that banks at the time used to refuse loans and financial services to the poor, or to people from socially disadvantaged areas. In this post,
Continue readingModeling my Childhood Home
Building this house was a relatively intuitive process, given my handle on the use of geometry in simple constructions. In order to simplify it, I decided, before I began, to focus on the general external shape rather than all the details, because this approach seemed to play more to the
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