Our project takes a big data approach to analyzing the Carletonian from 1877 to 2016. The goal of the project was to create an interactive tool that could empower others to do their own text analysis and explore Carleton’s culture with the data we processed. You can find our project
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Testing code and building charts with jsFiddle
What is it? jsFiddle is an online web development environment that is perfect for testing and sharing code with others. I would describe jsFiddle as a web developers best friend. jsFiddle gives users and simple, intuitive way to write HTML, CSS, and Javascript by provided each of these core
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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 are in the process of converting these into text files. However, when we realized that VoyantTools has a limit on how many
Continue readingMidterm – Migration of artists born in the 1860’s
I used Tate Art Gallery artist data and arcgis to examine birth and death locations of artists. Here is a link to my project.
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Should Humanities Students Learn To Code? In a world where computers are becoming increasingly prevalent in our society and academia, it has become more important than ever for students and professionals to have some knowledge of programming and computers. With traditionally non-technological fields such as history and english moving
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As someone who has experience using HMTL and CSS I found the more advanced tutorials very interesting. I enjoyed the learning more about the different types of input that are now available in HTML5. There are now specific input types for time, date, url, telephone, and email to name a
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Understanding Robots Reading Vogue Robots Reading Vogue is a digital humanities project done by Yale University that combines data mining with a century’s worth of Vogue covers and pages (2,700 covers and 400,000 pages weighing in at a massive 6 TB of data). With this data, Yale students and
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Modeling My House in Sketchup Modeling my childhood home via Sketchup was definitely a more challenging process than creating a doghouse. There were aspects of the build process than I found easy and certainly aspects that I found difficult. One of the easier portions of this design was creating
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