Our project uses an ArcGIS Story Map to illustrate trends and major changes in the geographic demographics of incoming Carls over the course of 60 years. We used worked with the Admissions Office to create context and narrative that weave throughout our data, which was drawn and cleaned from incoming
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Finding and Analyzing Connections Using Histograph
Histograph offers interesting and informative way to find connections between people across time and space. It uses multimedia collections as networks, operating under the assumption that people mentioned in the same document must have some sort of connection. By operating under various parameters, Histograph visualizes the “network” of connections between
Continue readingFinal Project Progress Report: The Details
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 readingMidterm – Gender Representation at the Tate: Artists born 1860s vs. 1960s
I used ArcGIS to create a map that shows the geographic location and gender breakdown of artists born in the 1860s and 1960s in the Tate Museum’s collection. Click here to see my project
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
Continue readingMy Experience With Programming and the DH Coding Debate
To Code or Not to Code? In class, we talked about the debate within the Digital Humanities the necessity of humanities students learning to code. While I don’t believe that all humanities students should need to become, as Matthew Kirschenbaum puts it in his essay Hello Worlds, “code monkeys,” I do
Continue readingMy Introduction to Code-Based Web Design
This week I began to learn more about the front-end languages that serve as the part of websites and DH projects that users see. I was particularly excited because the HTML and CSS tutorials from HTML Dog were both foreign and familiar to me, as I have some experience with “drag-and-drop”
Continue readingBreaking Down The Georgetown Slavery Archive
The Georgetown Slavery Archive is a project created by the Archives Subgroup of the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation. This digital archive preserves and aggregates documents concerning the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and Slavery. The project also reaches out to descendants of slaves owned by Maryland
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The first assignment in my Hacking the Humanities class was to use SketchUp, a 3D modeling software, to create a rough rendering of my childhood home. I learned the hard way to remember to save at the start and continue to do so throughout the process, as I excitedly dove
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