I found an easy and intuitive program called myHistro that creates projects combining the use of timelines and mapping to display data. The data is presented video that connects the timeline data with changes in location viewed on the map. This program is especially useful when telling a chronological story about the
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Instructions for Navigating an SQL Database
Let’s assume that you aren’t creating a database, meaning that all that’s necessary is the programming, something made simple. SQL is a database language used to navigate and organize the database of your choosing and create graphics with, but for now, you will see the programming side. Before I continue,
Continue readingHow to Create a Network Analysis Graph on Voyant Tools
The Links tool on Voyant Tools is a neat and interesting way of using a text analysis tool and a network analysis tool at the same time. It allows you to use a network analysis graph for words other than what we have done in class with using people or places as
Continue readingConverting text from a PDF to a Spreadsheet
The Goal: Have you ever had a lot of data on a PDF but no way to take that text and put it on a spreadsheet for ease of use? Have you been manually slogging through the process with no hope of salvation? Slog no more! Because I’m going to
Continue readingCreate a Mindmap with MindMeister.com
A mind map, according to the main page of one mindmapping platform, “is a graphical representation of ideas and concepts. It’s a visual thinking tool for structuring information, helping you to better understand, remember and generate new ideas.” In other words, this software can be used to brainstorm, to represent
Continue readingAutomate Online Tasks Using Zapier
Do you ever find yourself doing repetitive things online? You might be copying and pasting several things from a google doc to a spreadsheet. Or you might be manually tweeting every time you finish a blog post. Do not fret! Zapier is the ultimate tool to automate different web apps.
Continue readingEasy Data Analysis and Visualization with Orange (No Programming Required)
Orange is an open source data visualization and machine learning tool that enables users to create interactive data analysis workflows. On Orange, users can perform data analyses with numerous options for simple visualization, such as box plots and scatter plots, or more complex analyses using heat maps and clustering. Luckily,
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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
Continue readingTutorial: Using Apple Automator to manipulate text and PDF files
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
Continue readingTesting 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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