Group Members: Alief Moulana and Saahithi Rao Our project, LGBTQ+ History at Carleton, illustrates the advancement of LGBTQ+ awareness and support at Carleton College through an interactive timeline. This timeline complies information from Carleton’s digital and physical archives, along with personal oral histories to give users an insight into how LGBTQ+
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LGBTQ+ History at Carleton
LGBTQ+ History at Carleton illustrates the advancement of LGBTQ+ awareness and support at Carleton College through an interactive timeline. This timeline complies information from Carleton’s digital and physical archives, along with personal oral histories to give users an insight into how LGBTQ+ issues have changed from 1953 to the present.
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About RStudio RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides a user friendly interface for programming in R. Similar to JavaScript, which we looked at briefly, R is also a programming language. R, however, is a procedural language and does not use object-oriented programming. This means that it follows a
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Members: Saahithi Rao and Alief Moulana Progress We talked to Sarah Calhoun with the Digital Archives about resources that might be useful for our project, how to access the physical archives, and proper ways to both use and cite the digital sources we will be using. We also reached out
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This project is an interactive timeline of a selection of artworks by artists who were born in the 1960’s from the the Tate Collection.
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What Questions can be Answered by 3D modeling? 3D modeling and simulation is useful for answering and understanding many questions. Under certain circumstances and when used properly it can deepen our understanding and appreciation for what static pictures, sketches, and writing lack. Whether you want to model an ancient town
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For Learning To Code I am for all digital humanities students learning the basics of coding. Computers science is where the future is headed and realizing how coding can help whatever you want to do will help you advance. Like we talked about in class, a basic understanding is all
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I enjoyed learning how to use HTML and CSS and the beginner tutorials made it a lot easier to figure out. It was good to refresh what we went over in class and learn a little more. I’ve used other word processing applications like R Markdown, which uses dollar signs
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Mapping Inequality – A Digital Humanities Project I decided to explore a digital humanities project, titled Mapping Inequality about redlining during the Great Depression era. This project uses interactive maps and area descriptions from 1935 to 1940 to show wealth and racial inequality in U.S cities during this time period.
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Getting Familiar with SketchUp Familiarizing myself with sketchup felt fairly intuitive through figuring out the uses of all the tools and watching a few tutorials to see how certain characteristics like windows could make be made more realistic. I had fun translating memories of my childhood home to a 3D
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