ArcGIS Storymaps are a useful way to incorporate maps, images, video, and text into an easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate digital platform. Maps created in ArcGIS can be embedded and they remain interactive, allowing for the same information to be presented in an easier to navigate presentation. Images, video, and text can also be easily incorporated, providing context […]
For my midterm I decided to map the birth and death locations of artists in the Tate collection. The project can be found here: https://arcg.is/0WfmDi The blog post about the project can be found here: http://www.midterm.connellhistory.com/blog/
Using a census of the squirrels in New York City’s Central Park was certainly an interesting exercise. I chose to supplement this census with some information about the geographical features of the area; more specifically the tree coverage. I noticed that there were groupings of the locations of squirrels in the data that was generally […]
My personal webpage for this term is connellhistory.com. Starting this project has honestly been a little daunting, but I’m grateful to have a structured setting in which to build my skills and confidence in this area. I hope to use this platform as a way to curate my online presence, especially as I get involved […]
It’s fair to say that I agree with both Kirschenbaum and Donahue’s articles that it is useful for humanities students to learn how to code. Donahue, however, reflects most accurately how I feel about how this cross discipline work should function, stating …all who consider themselves scholars of the humanities should realize that the discourse of […]
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a project that seeks to map the social network of the the titular figure and those around him. Given the many roles Bacon served during his life, this project contributes to conversations that could be held in historical, literary, political, and philosophical disciplines. The project is openly collaborative, inviting […]
The form that knowledge takes in digital environments and the arguments it expresses in its information structures can be deeply infused with humanistic values, but only if humanists are involved. Burdick et al. “One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 19. For me, this quote gets at the inherent conversation between the […]
I was pleasantly surprised what I was able to achieve in this mini-project. I was off to a rocky start – I had to restart after somehow messing up the what plane the first rectangle is drawn upon – but got into the hang of things eventually. Using the tutorials given, I was able to […]
