Group Members: Alief Moulana and Saahithi Rao Our project, LGBTQ+ History at Carleton, illustrates the advancement of LGBTQ+ awareness and support at Carleton College through an interactive timeline. This timeline complies information from Carleton’s digital and physical archives, along with personal oral histories to give users an insight into how LGBTQ+
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Carleton During Times of War
Our project looks at enrollment statistics from the years 1940-1945 and 1967-1976 as well as textual analysis of issues of The Carletonian from the same years. Our aim in this project is to better understand the campus’ attitude toward the two wars in comparison to each other. We were interested in
Continue readingText analysis of Carleton’s past.
Our project takes a big data approach to analyzing the Carletonian from 1877 to 2016. The goal of the project was to create an interactive tool that could empower others to do their own text analysis and explore Carleton’s culture with the data we processed. You can find our project
Continue readingRobots Reading Carleton’s Academic Catalogs
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.
Continue readingLGBTQ+ History at Carleton
LGBTQ+ History at Carleton illustrates the advancement of LGBTQ+ awareness and support at Carleton College through an interactive timeline. This timeline complies information from Carleton’s digital and physical archives, along with personal oral histories to give users an insight into how LGBTQ+ issues have changed from 1953 to the present.
Continue readingGeographic Diversity At Carleton College: 1955-2015
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
Continue readingFinding 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 readingHow to Create a Timeline Project Using myHistro
I found an easy and intuitive program called myHistro that creates projects combining the use of timelines and mapping to display data. The data is presented video that connects the timeline data with changes in location viewed on the map. This program is especially useful when telling a chronological story about the
Continue readingHow to Create a Network Analysis Graph on Voyant Tools
The Links tool on Voyant Tools is a neat and interesting way of using a text analysis tool and a network analysis tool at the same time. It allows you to use a network analysis graph for words other than what we have done in class with using people or places as
Continue readingConverting text from a PDF to a Spreadsheet
The Goal: Have you ever had a lot of data on a PDF but no way to take that text and put it on a spreadsheet for ease of use? Have you been manually slogging through the process with no hope of salvation? Slog no more! Because I’m going to
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