Blog – Page 3 – Hacking the Humanities

January 10, 2018 lintone

My Childhood House and Examining Robots Reading Vogue

I love that, in this class, we start off with exploration and discovery and rediscovery. With that in mind, I’m going to showcase my childhood house and explain the digital humanities project I looked into. – Emanuel Linton Nostalgia Trip I’m going to begin with my childhood home where I

January 8, 2018 Alief

Robots Reading Vogue

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

January 7, 2018 Saahithi

Exploring Digital Maps

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.

January 7, 2018 Conor G

Breaking 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

January 7, 2018 Max Goldberg

The 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

January 6, 2018 onomiyan2

My fail at recreating my old house!

The process of thinking of how I wanted to recreate my childhood house was indeed a difficult one because of how weird my house was structured. I tried my best to recreate the front as best as I could. The hardest part is being very detailed. I am still figuring

January 5, 2018 Alief

First SketchUp Model (Alief)

Here I have some images from the SketchUp model of my childhood house. In this model, I encountered some challenges in creating the stairs on the front of the house. However, after several youtube tutorials, I succeeded in producing a relatively accurate representation of the stairs. This is actually a

January 5, 2018 Conor G

Sketching Out My House

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

January 5, 2018 Max Goldberg

SketchUp: First Impressions

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

January 5, 2018 wasende

Taking up SketchUp

SketchUp is a very user-friendly 3D software that allows you to create three dimensional objects. For the first assignment in the class Hacking the Humanities, I was supposed to create a 3D representational model of the outside of the house that I grew up in. With the instruction we received