Mapping Inequality is a 2015 project created by the University of Richmond that geographically visualizes and organizes New Deal-era data from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation that banks at the time used to refuse loans and financial services to the poor, or to people from socially disadvantaged areas. In this post,
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Introduction I decided to explore Robots Reading Vogue, a project created by Lindsay King and Peter Leonard at Yale University Library. This project combines fashion and data mining to produce a website that visualizes various interesting data related to the Vogue magazine. Sub-projects include word usage analysis, theme self-organization, random memo generation, and
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Mapping Inequality – A Digital Humanities Project I decided to explore a digital humanities project, titled Mapping Inequality about redlining during the Great Depression era. This project uses interactive maps and area descriptions from 1935 to 1940 to show wealth and racial inequality in U.S cities during this time period.
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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
Continue readingAuthorial London, The City In The Lives and Works of Its Writers
AUTHORIAL LONDON Blog by: Nick Onomiya If you are looking for a site that allows you to find where certain British writers or any writers lived in the London area then the Authorial London is the site you want to take a look at. This site not only provides a
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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Robots Reading Vogue is a project conducted by Yale’s digital humanities department. You can find the visualizations and analysis at http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/. The project consists of multiple processes and presentations conducted on 6 terabytes of sources. This project is unique in the array of diverse processes and presentations. The large amount of
Continue readingModeling my Childhood Home
Building this house was a relatively intuitive process, given my handle on the use of geometry in simple constructions. In order to simplify it, I decided, before I began, to focus on the general external shape rather than all the details, because this approach seemed to play more to the
Continue readingReverse Engineering Authorial London
Authorial London: The City in the Lives and Works of its Writers, is a site that maps the references to places in London that are made in works of writers who had lived in the city. The makers of the site, who wanted to demystify the ambiguity that sometimes surrounds
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SketchUp is a great tool for creating 3d models. It allowed me to rapidly create something close to my house, but as I worked to add in details and finishing touches the time started to add up. I spent a large percentage of my time with a model very close
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