I an enthusiast of Chinese history. Since I’m haven’t taken any history lessons in Carleton, I see this final project as an opportunity to re-explore my high school interest. I hope I can use the tools I’ve learnt in this course to display poet Su Shi’s life stories in a much more vivid way than […]
Month: February 2020
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Autodesk Fusion 360 Tutorial
Autodesk Fusion 360 is a CAD software which is a lot like Sketchup, but without all those annoying dots. The program is free for students,but can make your computer angry, which is why I used a school computer for this tutorial. Fusion 360 is really helpful for modeling different objects, especially for 3D printing. Today […]
My job is to find appropriate images of buildings that are 1) relevant to Su Shi’s life and/or poems 2) high-quality and model-able. At this moment, I am almost done with modeling Huxin Pavilion of West Lake, Hangzhou, China. Huxin Pavilion is a small pavilion in the middle of West Lake, one of the most […]
Group name: from Chinese Architecture Group to Poet Su Shi Life Group Group members: Zhihan Yang, Yixin Song, Songyan Zhao Links to our own blog posts: Zhihan: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/week-9-project-preparation/w8-zhihans-contribution/ Songyan: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/uncategorized/the-life-of-chinese-poet-sushi-silas-zhaos-contribution/ Yixin: http://medhieval.com/classes/hh2020/week-9-project-preparation/w8-progress-updates/ Project details Important note: After talking to Austin, we felt like our project was missing “a strong narrative, storytelling element” as mentioned by […]
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Personal Work on Final Project
So far, our group has found archives that contain off-campus study data. I’ve looked through lots of online and paper documents that contain data about off-campus studies. After looking through the data and finding the most relevant data, I entered it into our spreadsheet. We will be continuing to enter data into the spreadsheet over […]
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Progress Update: OCS Mapping
Progress So far, we have narrowed down our areas of focus, started our data collection, and contacted Archives in the library to find more historical information about past OCS programs. We have been working with Nat Wilson in the archives who has compiled information on OCS programs for us. These documents are unprocessed and only […]
Progress:From our original idea for the project, we’ve adapted our project to yield some results that are a bit more conclusive and realistic. Instead of tracking the progression of a variety of Carleton teams over their histories, we’ve decided to focus solely on the Carleton football team. Given the longevity of the football team and […]
Progress As of the end of class Tuesday we have done our initial text processing in Voyant tools, which indicated to us we would need to do a bit more editing to the data in order to make it machine readable/effective in visualizing the program data. Our personal research has helped us begin making hesitant […]
Progress: So far, our group has been focusing mainly on gathering as many maps of the Arb as possible. As of right now, we have found 14 maps ranging from 1931 to 2016, using the online Arb collection. We talked to a research librarian who suggested that, if we wanted to map the Arb between […]
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Project Update
Team PLM: Mike Kombate, Diana De La Paz, Gaby Lazo Progress Since our last blog post, our group has worked hard to develop a clearer theme to visualize with our project. We want to focus our project on a specific piece of media we found in the archives: “Carleton Today,” a film reel taken sometime […]
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Food Diversification Project Update
Progress: What have you done so far, who have you talked to, what have you gathered, and what have you built? We have started thinking of ways to make our research more pointed and are looking into specific topics to cover. We are thinking about separating the information either by a decade or by specific […]
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Dacie Moses Project Progress
Aaron Forman, Molly Sandweiss, Nacho Rodriguez, and Bia Furtado Since last week, our group has taken significant strides toward the fulfillment of our final project’s goals. Bia acquired data spreadsheets from Dacie Moses house, which contain information pertaining to volunteers, events, donations, Sunday Brunches, and types of food. Nacho worked with Open Refine to clean […]
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Project Update: Co-Taught Classes
Brooke McKelvey, Nicole Connell, and Rebecca Hicke The progress we’ve made on our project has been in the data collection area, which we’ve identified as the most time consuming area of our project. We have gotten about 25% of the way through our initial data collection, which involves identifying classes listed in Carleton’s academic catalogs […]
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convo-sation
I am interested in thinking about convo in its other iterations, before discoursed surrounding the purpose of convo was as strongly focused around promoting inclusion and diversity in the specifically 21st political sense. How was the purpose of convo defined before many of the college’s official language circled around these sorts of ideas? From a […]
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The importance of “non-makers”
I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others—above all, the caregivers—whose work isn’t about something you can put in a box and sell. —— Why I Am Not a […]
The group for this project is Teagan Johnson, Alexei Thomas, Hannah Sheridan and Eli Offman. For this project, we intend to compare Carleton College’s Off-Campus Study offerings over the years. Carleton publishes statistics about the percentage of the graduating class that went on OCS, recurring programs, popular locations for specific courses, relation to popularity in […]
Thoughts: We will focus on the reconstruction of one of the buildings in the Forbidden City. Besides constructing the 3-d model, we may align it in a story map and present background information of it, such as the procedure of the construction or the historical stories lay behind it. Here is the group block link:
Buildings rise and fall, classes come and go, but the culture remains in place.
Members:Adam Loew, Nick Reeves, Andrew Lin Topic and Objectives:We are planning for our project to create an interactive timeline that shows the positions of Carleton sports teams within the MIAC conference at the end of each season over the years. We’d be using data from the MIAC websites to record the history of each team […]
The members of our motley crew are: Spencer Lekki, Chloe Truebenbach, and Cecilia Kryzda. Our project objectives are twofold: we seek to compare the keywords, themes, host departments to general descriptions and purpose statements about Convocation. Further, we would like to observe changes in Carleton’s institutional ideas of importance. From a cursory skim of the […]
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Final Project Pitch
Nicole Connell, Rebecca Hicke, Brooke McKelvey Our project will be creating a network from a text analysis that displays the relationships between departments and professors through co-taught classes. Our data is composed of classes with multiple professors and comes from the past twenty years of academic catalogs (1999-2000 to 2019-2020) which are in the archives […]
Members: Ginifer Coffin, Faith Yim, Daniel Chung, Lucklita Theng Project Topic: Carleton’s Food: Where Does it Come From? Proposed Methodology: We are planning on using data from the Carleton food providers from the past decade or so (ex. Bon Appetit). The information we will be specifically interested in staple food products (meat, dairy, vegetables, grains) […]
For this final project, my biggest interest is on discovering Su Shi’s exact life journey by reading a lot of materials. I would need to search some original Song dynasty records and Su Shi’s own diary to make myself clear about those important locations in his life. This would be a good chance for me […]
Members of the group: Zhihan Yang, Yixin Song, and Songyan Zhao. We want to map the famous Song dynasty poet Su Shi’s life and post an interactive post to introduce Su Shi in a new DH way. The proposed methodology: We will collect poems, records, and specific location’s architecture data online. We will also use […]
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ArcGIS
I didn’t realize that there was such a large difference in the squirrel populations, so the data set on ArcGIS was interesting to see. I had some struggles with ArcGIS at first, and it took some poking around to find various options and layers for the map. I was never able to find the “Enable […]
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Dacie Moses Project Pitch
Group Members: Molly, Nacho, Bia, Aaron Definition of Project Objectives: Find out how times of the year affect how many people visit Dacie Moises House and what they bake. The Plan: We want to make a timeline that shows the busiest times of terms and what kinds of things get baked at different times of […]
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Teagan’s Midterm
This ArcGIS map shows the trends between the gender, birthplace, and other statistics of artists from 1900-1929 using data from the Tate art collection. Link: Teagan’s Midterm
(My title is only half serious.) For the midterm, I used some text analysis tools on Mark Twain’s speeches. The results? Everything from heartwarming to hair-raising. Read it here.
For my midterm I decided to map the birth and death locations of artists in the Tate collection. The project can be found here: https://arcg.is/0WfmDi The blog post about the project can be found here: http://www.midterm.connellhistory.com/blog/
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DGAH midterm – Eli Offman
I looked into the popularity of various art mediums held by the Gutenberg from the 40s, and analyzed how the museum acquired its collection. A link to my project
