Carleton Courses Throughout the Years

Max and I are planning to examine the Carleton academic catalogs throughout the years.  Our Obectives: Convert the data into a searchable database. Sort the data. Run various operations and analysis on the data. Amount of classes in different departments. Use of words over time. Number of classes taught by

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3D Modeling

For which research questions would 3D modeling and simulation  be an appropriate methodology? How things were built How places and objects were actually used. What it felt like to interact at that point in time. When would manual modeling make the most sense? Procedural modeling? Scanning? Photogrammetry?  A combination of

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A Case For Programing

I back Matthew Kirschenbaum’s opinion that humanities students should learn how to program. Humanities work to create a world, by using rich descriptive language and other text. With evolving technologies humanities scholars are having to shift to the tools that allow them to make the best and most accessible work.

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HTML & CSS

I really enjoyed going into HTML & CSS. I learned them a while ago and it was nice to get a reminded about classes and tags I don’t often use. Most people don’t realize how accessible it is to make a website. HTML & CSS were a start along a

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Robots Reading Vogue

Robots Reading Vogue is a project conducted by Yale’s digital humanities department. You can find the visualizations and analysis at http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/. The project consists of multiple processes and presentations conducted on 6 terabytes of sources. This project is unique in the array of diverse processes and presentations. The large amount of

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Sketch of My House

SketchUp is a great tool for creating 3d models. It allowed me to rapidly create something close to my house, but as I worked to add in details and finishing touches the time started to add up. I spent a large percentage of my time with a model very close

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