A Mini Gallery of Artists Born in 1860s

I used the Tate Gallery metadata to create a lifespan timeline of artists born in 1860s including their gender, places of birth and death, and, most importantly their artwork. To access my mini gallery, click here (click on the Timeline button for the gallery and About button for the information about

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Cleaning Data

Extracting Text from PDF There are many ways to get OCR’d text out of a pdf, from APIs to python utilities to copy/paste. If you are on a mac, one of the easiest is to set up an automator script to generate output from any PDF you drop on top

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Robots Reading the Carletonian

Members in Group: Oren and Chris Project Definition: We will use the digital records of the Carletonian 1965-2015 to track the interests of Carleton students over time as well as the evolution of the newspaper itself.   Proposed Methodology Data: For our project we hope to be able to use Carletonian issues

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Carleton Courses Throughout the Years

Max and I are planning to examine the Carleton academic catalogs throughout the years.  Our Obectives: Convert the data into a searchable database. Sort the data. Run various operations and analysis on the data. Amount of classes in different departments. Use of words over time. Number of classes taught by

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