Our project mainly focuses on what reasons may have led to the decline in Carleton’s football team. We dive into the history of the Carleton football team with giving graphs and charts of their win and losses in the past years and also a timeline of the history of the
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Final Project Presentations
Publication and Presentation (Week 10) Projects will be finished and published BEFORE CLASS on Friday, March 9 One member of each group should write a blog post giving a brief introduction and providing a link to the final project. On the last day of class each group will give a
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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
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Academic Catalog Analysis: Max and Cole Progress We talked to both Nat Wilson and Hsianghui Liu-Spencer from the Carleton archives to try and learn more about the documents. We learned how they were OCR’ed and what content is available. The information they had available to them was not helpful for
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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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Progress We have finished cleaning and sorting the data for our twelve Zoobooks [that is a LOT of text, ~5,400 students worth], imported the csv files for each year into an ArcGIS map, and are currently working on accessibility, streamlining, and beautification. We have also reached out to the Admissions
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 readingCarleton’s Growth as a National and International Draw, 1955-2015
Group Members: Ankit Sanghi, Conor Gormally Topic & Project Objectives We propose to create a digital humanities project that explores the changing geographical demographics of Carleton students between 1955 and 2015. The core digital element of our DH project will be a map that allows users to visually compare the
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