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final tango with convo

Here is a link to our final project, which took a look at word frequencies in Convocation descriptions to reflect on what kinds of topics and speakers Convocations have featured over time, from 1962-1978, then from 1978-2020. Take a gander! Visit our website here

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Carleton College Today: Today (Final Project)

Our project revolves around “Carleton College Today,” a video we discovered in the Carleton College Digital Collections, originating sometime between 1964 and 1967. Using videography we recreated selected scenes and compiled it into a new Carleton College Today video. In addition, we created a storymap tour that displays the locations in which each clip was […]

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Team Team Teaching Final

We’ve created a network to represent how classes have been co-taught over the last 21 years at Carleton College. We pulled our data from the Carleton College Archives, and then re-visualized it in an interactive network! You can access our project here. ~Brooke, Nicole, Rebecca

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Food at Carleton: Final Project

What is it about ? For our final project, Daniel, Faith, Ginnifer and I( Lita) decided to look into how specific events in the past have shaped the current food culture at the school and how that affects the students of today. Using the archives, we have excavated information regarding community eating, civil rights at […]

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Hacking The Arb: Finale

Our project consists of a story map shows the transformation of the Carleton Arboretum from its founding to the present day. Visit our website below to experience the wonders of the Arb from its founding in 1927 to the present. This project was created by Shannon Cashin, Kevin Bui, and Emmy Belloni.

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Does Carleton OCS provide STEM sufficient opportunities?

Teagan Johnson, Eli Offman, Hannah Sheridan, Alexei Thomas This project investigates Carleton’s OCS programming, dating back to the ’90s. Specifically, how the school tends to underrepresent STEM interested students with relevant study abroad opportunities. Our project uses data collected from the OCS office, the Carleton Archives, and the Colleges’ website to help build an in-depth […]

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Historical Performance of Carleton Football

Our project revolved around mapping the performance of Carleton’s football team over the years and looking for correlations between major events on campus, within the NCAA, and the world. Although we weren’t able to make any concrete conclusions, we believe the project could be a stepping stone for a more thorough analysis involving other focus […]

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ArcGIS StoryMaps Tutorial

ArcGIS Storymaps are a useful way to incorporate maps, images, video, and text into an easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate digital platform. Maps created in ArcGIS can be embedded and they remain interactive, allowing for the same information to be presented in an easier to navigate presentation. Images, video, and text can also be easily incorporated, providing context […]

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Carleton College Today Today

Our project revolves around using rephotography to recreate selected footage of a film we found in the Carleton College archives. In addition to using rephotography, we have created a Storymap tour that displays the locations in which each clip was filmed. Here is the link for our project: https://www.carletontradition.mikekombate.com/

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Co-taught Class Correlation

Our final project is a network visualizing co-taught classes listed in Carleton’s academic catalogs from the last 20 years. We show the correlations between professors and departments, hoping to find a larger pattern about which departments co-teach the most frequently. We are about 75% of the way done with our project, but here is a […]

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OCS Program Project

Big Question: Does Carleton fail to uphold the institution’s professed goals of education by failing to provide STEM majors with diverse off-campus opportunities? Palladio: Below is the code for the Palladio presentation. It is a plain text file, but once downloaded, it should be converted to a JSON file. After converting it to a JSON […]

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Mapping the Arbs

The Carleton College Arboretum (more commonly known as the Arb) was founded in 1926, and has since been used as farmland, the meeting place for the Reformed Druids of North America, and a place for Carleton students to get exercise, learn, or otherwise just enjoy nature. The Arb has undergone many changes throughout the years […]

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Poet Su Shi’s Life: Final Post

Group member Songyan Zhao, Yixing Song, Zhihan Yang Introduction Su Shi (1037-1101) is arguably the most famous poet in China. He had an adventurous life; he dwelled in several cities with very different humanistic and geographical characteristics. These factors had strong influences on his work, hence the importance to understand them. We believe that an interactive […]

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final post: last dance with convo

Take a look at what we’ve been chugging away at for the past few weeks! Introduction This project takes on Convocation data from Carleton College, since its beginnings in 1962, to its brief intermission from 1968 through 1977, then to its reintroduction in 1978 until the present, to understanding patterns over time using text analysis. […]

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Dacie Moses House

This project used information from Dacie Moses House and the Carleton Archives to create a site about the House’s history and the activities that take place there. The site includes an about section, a brief history of the house, an interactive timeline, graphs which depict the data we obtained from Dacie Moses house, including frequency […]

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Tutorial for TimeMapper

TimeMapper vs. ArcGIS’s StoryMap Today I will present you a tutorial of using TimeMapper to create your own timeline map with ease. Although my group used ArcGIS’s StoryMap to build our final project, I found this TimeMapper a great tool to display texts with its coherent story on maps more efficiently. ArcGIS’s StoryMap is more […]

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HOW TO USE ARCIGS STORY MAPS

ArcGIS is a really powerful tool that allows us to create interactive information maps. This tool could combine the GIS map and other information (such as 3D models, text, and pictures). If you want to know how to use this powerful tool, the first step is, surely, open the app. So, firstly, you can search […]

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snagit tutorial

Hello! Sit down and get comfortable. I’ve decided to go meta and show you how to use a tool you can use to make a variety of things including tutorials! This post will give you a quick little introduction to Snagit. So, what is Snagit? Snagit is a screenshot program that captures audio/visual output. It […]

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Using Plugins in WordPress

For those of us who are less than mediocre with technology, WordPress plugins are a godsend. I discovered the limitless possibilities within plugins after I struggled to write code that would change my website’s cursor. After spending a great deal of time without any success, I discovered a plugin called Cursor Control, which made it […]

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Free and Simple OCR

While attempting to recreate OCS data from old printouts to google sheets, I found that for the sake of time and sanity, I could not quickly convert 10 years of OCS programming by hand. Thus, I started looking into a number of OCR programs. OCR essentially allows you to take jpeg or non-highlightable pdfs and […]

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GGPlot Visualization Tutorial

While there are numerous data visualization tools available, GGPlot still stands as one of the more comprehensive and creatively flexible platforms. GGPlot is a data visualization package for R, a widely used statistical computing program. Compared to tools like popular visualization tools like Tableau, GGPlot is much harder to understand (it’s syntax/structure can be frustrating […]

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Tutorial: Palladio

What is Palladio? Palladio is an online tool that allows users to visualize data in the form of maps, graphs, timelines, and tables. With many different ways to manipulate the data, Palladio specializes in showing data that has many attributes. However, because of the many different features, Palladio users often experience bugs. In order to […]

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Tutorial Assignment

Author: Zhihan Yang Introduction Two weeks ago, I read about a tool that can extract the main colors from (photos of) paintings. This tool uses the k-means algorithm to group pixels into a user-specified number of major colors. A painting can easily contain millions of different colors; this tool reduces this number into a manageable […]

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3D Puzzle Cubes with Autodesk Inventor

The tool I selected for my tutorial is called Autodesk Inventor. Autodesk Inventor is a computer-aided design application for 3D mechanical design. Whereas the SketchUp program we used was geared more towards architectural and interior design, Autodesk Inventor is geared more towards product design and engineering. Although it is geared more towards engineering, I have […]

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Tutorial: Audio Analysis in Chuck

Although it is not directly relevant to my groups final project, I wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to apply the digital humanities to my own area of interest. I have recently become familiar with the computer music programming language Chuck, which has expanded my ability to understand how we think about the relationship […]

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Data Visualization with Gephi

Gephi is an open-source visualization software. It is especially useful for link and network analysis. Gephi is capable of in-depth analysis and creating and customizing your own visuals. Gephi uses data points called nodes connected by lines (edges) that represent the links and networks between them. Many examples online show analysis of website pathways, social […]

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Midterm

For my DH midterm, I did a text analysis on the short story On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James; I hoped to uncover what sort of terms were being used to describe the Boer war. Attached is a link

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Tutorial: Cleaning Data for Software Packages

The internet is full of data processing and visualization software packages that allow people with relatively little computing experience to create polished looking digital projects. However, these softwares often want data in a very specific format which differs from package to package. Each new tool is like a keyhole that necessitates reshaping the data in […]

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Flourish Studio Tutorial

Flourish Studio is a web-based data visualization tool born out of developers Duncan Clark and Robin Houston’s desires to create a visualization tool easily accessible and usable for non-coders. After creating a free account (with paid options available), users of Flourish gain access to dozens of templates for data visualization, from simple bar graphs to […]

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Juxta Editions Tutorial

Juxta Editions is an online platform for digitizing printed and handwritten documents. You can either transcribe a single document, or a series of documents and compile them into an edition. Either way, the process begins the same way: by uploading a JPG, PNG, or GIF. Once this file is uploaded, Juxta Editions offers two methods […]

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