Here is a link to our final project, which took a look at word frequencies in Convocation descriptions to reflect on what kinds of topics and speakers Convocations have featured over time, from 1962-1978, then from 1978-2020. Take a gander! Visit our website here
Take a look at what we’ve been chugging away at for the past few weeks! Introduction This project takes on Convocation data from Carleton College, since its beginnings in 1962, to its brief intermission from 1968 through 1977, then to its reintroduction in 1978 until the present, to understanding patterns over time using text analysis. […]
Hello! Sit down and get comfortable. I’ve decided to go meta and show you how to use a tool you can use to make a variety of things including tutorials! This post will give you a quick little introduction to Snagit. So, what is Snagit? Snagit is a screenshot program that captures audio/visual output. It […]
I am interested in thinking about convo in its other iterations, before discoursed surrounding the purpose of convo was as strongly focused around promoting inclusion and diversity in the specifically 21st political sense. How was the purpose of convo defined before many of the college’s official language circled around these sorts of ideas? From a […]
The members of our motley crew are: Spencer Lekki, Chloe Truebenbach, and Cecilia Kryzda. Our project objectives are twofold: we seek to compare the keywords, themes, host departments to general descriptions and purpose statements about Convocation. Further, we would like to observe changes in Carleton’s institutional ideas of importance. From a cursory skim of the […]
For my midterm, I charted the frequency of two words: “mr” and “boy” which I argue respectively characterize two different types of speeches given by Mark Twain. See it below! https://www.ckryzda.com/blog/uncategorized/a-mr-e/
For my map, I decided to disregard squirrel fur color, although the icons were quite endearing, and instead on tail twitching. The blue dots represent locations at which squirrels were sighted twitching their tails, while the faint grey X’s (almost imperceptible) are locations where squirrels did not twitch their tails. My greatest concern was finding […]
My WordPress experience felt very familiar and made me think of the ways in which these kinds of personalizations have become so much part of my life. The idea of crafting a public profile is almost ordinary. WordPress, for people who are usually on the client side of coding like me, is very easy to […]
While I think that learning to code is helpful, I think that we should accept that some people will have an elementary and cursory understanding of it rather than idealize a world in which everyone is equipped to design a complex program on their own. I am skeptical of the vocationalism, which Kirschenbaum is also […]
http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/ Sources looked through Robots Reading Vogue project, which takes advantage of the vast abundance of Vogue magazines which had already been digitized through a collaboration with ProQuest and Condé Nast, the mass media company. Choosing Vogue was a strategic decision: few other magazines have consistently been published for over a century while also continuing […]
“Along with many other scholars, we suggest that the migration of cultural materials into digital media is a process analogous to the flowering of Renaissance and post-Renaissance print culture.” Burdick et al. “One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 1-26. This quotation is both obvious and worth taking a moment to reflect […]
I found the click and drag component so central to Sketchup to be a highly intuitive tool that felt natural to me. Using it felt similar to building games I’ve used in the past, like the Sims builder. I also found the pull notion to be a good tool that was also fun to use […]
