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Alternate Carleton

For our final digital humanities project, Emily and I explored the history behind Carleton’s campus buildings. Our project focusses on an extensive overhaul of the…

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Data Visualization Made Easy with Tableau

So you have a bunch of data, but you’re not sure what it all means. One approach would be to import the dataset into Excel…

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Exploring American Life in the 1940s Through Photos

For my midterm project, I created an interactive map with metadata from the Cushman Photo Collection. Here’s the link.

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The Campus That Could Have Been

Emily Wight and I are teaming up to create a digital humanities project, “the campus that might have been.” Our goal is to explore abandoned…

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Flat Data vs. Relational Data: Which is Right for Your Purpose?

When creating a dataset, it’s important to plan ahead. What type of information will you store? Who will access it? What type of performance do…

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Programming as an Art

I once thought that programming was some sort of niche study that only serious mathematicians or engineers might use practically. Only now, after a year…

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Learning From the Web With HTML Dog

As I explore more digital humanities projects, something that I find interesting is the way their websites are designed. Each project uses a different layout…

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Robots are In: How Researchers at Yale Analyzed Thousands of “Vogue” Issues.

Vogue has arguably remained the most iconic fashion magazines for over one hundred years. Seasonal styles have come and gone, but researchers at Yale are…

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SketchUp Reflections

Getting started with SketchUp was pretty straight-forward. It has a friendly UI and a lot of powerful tools. Everything should be easy in theory, but…

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