We used Voyant Tools and Monkey Learn to showcase trends in word usage over time in Carleton’s Academic Catalogs. We primarily focused on the last 100 years. We look into languages, different departments, and even classifying the text into different categories using AI. You can find our finished project here.
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Automate 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.
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Academic Catalog Analysis: Max and Cole Progress We talked to both Nat Wilson and Hsianghui Liu-Spencer from the Carleton archives to try and learn more about the documents. We learned how they were OCR’ed and what content is available. The information they had available to them was not helpful for
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I created a brief timeline of Charles Weever Cushman’s photograph collection from around 1940. http://midterm.goldbergmax.com/
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Humanities Students and Programming: Before the rise of empires in Europe, each small community had to fill the roles of feeding, healing, peacekeeping, teaching, parenting, and entertaining. But now, everything can be outsourced. White collar workers work long hours, and then they often outsource their cooking, lawn care, cleaning, and
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I have had very little experience with HTML and CSS in the past. For example, I have inspected and edited small pieces of websites before, but have never written from scratch. I found being able to construct a website on my own to be an amazing experience. I love how everything
Continue readingThe Components of Mapping Inequality
As part of the New Deal, the federal government commissioned The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) to appraise homes in almost 250 cities and create “security maps” to display their findings. This led to a series of redlining in several of these cities. In 2015, a team at the University
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In my Digital Humanities class, I was tasked to create a 3D model of my house using SketchUp. After only a brief demonstration, I set out to work on it. Although there were definitely some kinks I had to work out… Keyboard Shortcuts: If you’ve never used SketchUp before (or
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