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Squirrels in Central Park

The map I made shows the data on Central Park Squirrel sightings and information on average household sizes in the US. There is no obvious connection between household size and squirrel population, but I’d like to think that a larger household likely has kids and that might affect whether or not the squirrels choose to […]

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Central Park Squirrels Spend the Most on Childcare

This is a map that shows squirrel populations in Central Park and childcare spending because clearly there’s a relationship between the two. Everyone knows only the rich squirrels can afford to live in Central Park. Making the map was pretty easy with the tutorial. I think the hardest part was choosing colors and themes and […]

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Assignments Week 4: Spatial Humanities

On Squirrels and Soil

Considering the fact I’d never touched GIS software before, it’s a bit of a miracle this map works the way it’s supposed to. Even more miraculous is the fact that I was able to embed it below. I believe both are testaments to the power of tutorials and persistence. Also helpful was the ability to […]

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Elevation vs. Squirrel Sightings

This map shows the relationship between elevation and squirrel sightings in Central Park. The base layer is a map of New York City, followed by a layer of the squirrel census data. The last layer is the elevation of New York City. Each type of squirrel (grey, brown, and black) is depicted by a picture […]

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Mapping and Squirrels

A map that plots different squirrel sightings in Central Park as well as the average US household income in different areas. The data for the squirrel sightings was made public by Katherine Walden at Grinnell College. To create the map, I started with a base layer of a street map. I then layered the squirrel […]

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Squirrel Map

This is a simple map that I made. Basically, I mimicked Austin’s work and then made the pop-up for squirrels cleaner. It’s nothing too complicated, but I can see how this tool can be extremely beneficial when analyzing data. Coming from a CS background, this is the type of stuff that we’d have to do […]

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Squirrel park and internet access map

This map shows the distribution of Squirrel and the internet access among different age groups, created on ArcGIS. The process of making a GIS map like this is not hard. This map has two layers: the density of squirrel and internet access among different age groups.

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Assignments Week 4: Spatial Humanities

Squirrel Park

A map of the distribution of squirrels in Central Park, New York. Created on ArcGIS and with a squirrel census data made public by Katherine Walden at Grinnell College. I changed the icon size in order to display the data in a way I felt held more integrity to the data, and configured the pop-up […]

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Assignments Week 4: Spatial Humanities

Squirrels in Central Park

I have made an interactive map showing the density of squirrels’ population in New York’s central park alongside with the base map of New York city’s population density. By applying two different layers of data(one of them chose from online ArcGIS data set), I have clearly showed the two spices’ population comparison. The link below […]

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S.I.M.P.

(Squirrels in my Population) Squirrels, a more detailed map, and the daytime/nighttime population of humans. Squirrels run central park, and I, for one, welcome our new overlords. Embedding was difficult, and it stopped working for some reason? But It’s here now! I see how this tool can be useful, but it wasn’t too interesting to […]

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E-Portfolio on WordPress

Click here to see my page! It hasn’t gotten any good content yet, but for now, I am just familiarizing myself with the WordPress function. I find the experience hard to control, and so I struggled a bit but I managed to put a sample together. I will continue to explore! What might you do […]

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Code Your Own Way

(This is an incredibly late post, but in my defense – I changed my mind on some things in the process of writing this, and I just couldn’t get myself to finish any faster. Better late than never? Anyway…) Humanities students should “learn to program” in the sense that Evan Donahue describes it: by engaging […]

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WordPress: Trials and Tribulations

My process with setting up my WordPress site was quite bumpy.  Something went wrong in my registration stages so I never got a verification email.  This snag led to some conversations with customer support about how to log into my website.  However, we got it all figured out (a little later than intended) and I […]

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WordPress Platform: Dissections and Decisions

A very brief thought As I write this first post, I am so excited about all that I plan to do using WordPress. I have chosen the website theme, activated the Askimet plugin to prevent comment scam, and have created an “About” page. I look forward to creating a solid and informative collection of posts […]

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My WordPress Experience

Drawbacks? While this a great way to communicate with others, it has drawbacks as opposed to using a social media platform or some other platform. First, one thing that can either be a benefit or a drawback is the number of choices one has with this type of platform. Personally, I would prefer a social […]

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johnsont4.com

My Experience So Far: Making this website has been an enjoyable experience so far. I enjoy the fact that I’m able to customize almost every aspect of my website by using CSS and the built-in tools on WordPress. I’m excited to learn all of the nuances of creating the best possible website. In the future, […]

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Drawing Connections in DH :Coding, Voltaire and Ice Cream

Brief Introduction After a couple readings done on the topic of coding, I gathered that coding is considered, by those familiar with its secrets, to be an extremely beautiful language. The perfection of its logic is described as exquisite. Many advocate for its distribution around the globe, affirming that *everyone* should learn it. Is this […]

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Setting up WordPress

How did I fare setting up? The basics of setting up my own website were not as difficult as I was expecting it to be. Perhaps it was the fact that I was given step-by-step instructions– who knows? It was extremely gratifying to open up my website for the first time. When I was choosing […]

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birth of the website

My WordPress experience felt very familiar and made me think of the ways in which these kinds of personalizations have become so much part of my life. The idea of crafting a public profile is almost ordinary. WordPress, for people who are usually on the client side of coding like me, is very easy to […]

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Making a Blog

Well, so I thought I knew what I was doing…oops, I originally posted the following on my own blog as opposed to this one, but now that I understand the assignment better, heres the post about making my blog, the original can be found at lekkis-hist.net “This has been a bit of a new experience, […]

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My WordPress Experience

Setting up my website was relatively straightforward as the guides posted were helpful and well-documented with annotated images posted for each step of the process. Downloading the CSS plugin was the only step of the process where I decided to just search for the plugin in the plugin add section of the website and install […]

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Creating a Blog

I found the process of creating a website to be extremely fluid and straightforward. As I argued in my last blog post, digital resources have reached a point where engaging with them is accessible to non-technical audiences and WordPress certainly meets the mark. Installing plugins, themes, and creating pages are all approachable, and the processes […]

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Blog Introduction

My personal webpage for this term is connellhistory.com. Starting this project has honestly been a little daunting, but I’m grateful to have a structured setting in which to build my skills and confidence in this area. I hope to use this platform as a way to curate my online presence, especially as I get involved […]

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Creating a WordPress Site

Creating my own website was a challenging assignment, to say the least. It took me a long time to set up and install the necessary plugins. I decided to stay with the Twenty Twenty theme, because I liked that one the most. I spent some time reviewing what I had learned of CSS, and then […]

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“Hello World” – A Role Reversal

Last week we had the opportunity to learn a little about coding, and this week we also did a light dive into CSS, JAVA, and HTML. The phrase that seems to have perforated all those lessons and truly, at least for me, marked their advent was “Hello World.” In starting the unit we were introduced […]

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Wandering WordPress

While it is still very much a work in progress, I have been enjoying the experience of beginning to work with WordPress. The greatest challenge that I have encountered so far has been trying to strike a balance between creating a website that will be primarily used for this class for the rest of the […]

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My First Site

I have been dreaming about having a site of my own for a long time, but I didn’t try to set it up because I thought I might require a lot of expertise. Today, I just set up my first site by following in the instructions given in this course – I’m thrilled. Let me […]

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alexeithomas.com

I created my first website at alexeithomas.com. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, fiddling with design and making it my own space made me feel a sense of importance. As it is a blog, I plan on using it for thoughts, stories or other things that I find interesting or important! Though making this website […]

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The experience of setting up WordPress

This is my first time of hosting a website, and it’s a really new and interesting experience for me. It takes me some time to get familier with the site, and the feeling of controlling everything in my website is great. I think I will definitely devote more time to study how to manage my […]

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The Ups and Downs of Making My Own Website

Making a website on WordPress was NOT easy. Despite it being a popular site for blogs, I found myself struggling every step of the way to create my own blog. Too often I felt overwhelmed by the many options WordPress gave me when I was trying to change something minimal like the text alignment on […]

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