Our project revolved around mapping the performance of Carleton’s football team over the years and looking for correlations between major events on campus, within the NCAA, and the world. Although we weren’t able to make any concrete conclusions, we believe the project could be a stepping stone for a more thorough analysis involving other focus […]
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Data visualization is increasingly becoming a vital resource in presenting data and evidence in the humanities and social sciences (hence the subject area of digital humanities), where technology has traditionally not been used. For my group’s final project for the course, we knew that data visualization would be a key element to the completion of […]
Progress:From our original idea for the project, we’ve adapted our project to yield some results that are a bit more conclusive and realistic. Instead of tracking the progression of a variety of Carleton teams over their histories, we’ve decided to focus solely on the Carleton football team. Given the longevity of the football team and […]
Members:Adam Loew, Nick Reeves, Andrew Lin Topic and Objectives:We are planning for our project to create an interactive timeline that shows the positions of Carleton sports teams within the MIAC conference at the end of each season over the years. We’d be using data from the MIAC websites to record the history of each team […]
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ArcGIS
I didn’t realize that there was such a large difference in the squirrel populations, so the data set on ArcGIS was interesting to see. I had some struggles with ArcGIS at first, and it took some poking around to find various options and layers for the map. I was never able to find the “Enable […]
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Adam Loew: Midterm Assignment
For my midterm, I chose to do a text-based analysis on the file of Mark Twain’s speeches from https://www.gutenberg.org. Feel free to check out my project at http://midterm.loewadam.com/!
Judging by my title, I’m sure you might be able to guess where my blog post is going. Overall, I wouldn’t be able to say that my process of building my website (which you can access here) went as smoothly as I originally thought. I found the overall process to be quite clunky, and the […]
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ShouldWeCode();
As the world becomes more technologically advanced, there’s an increasing push for kids and students to start learning to write code at younger and younger ages. The image showed above is one of the top apps on the iOS store, and there’s way more available besides Lightbot that are accessible to people with smartphones and […]
For this most recent assignment, I decided to write my “deconstruction” of a Digital Humanities project on a virtual version of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world and located in Cambodia (you can access the project here). The temple complex was built in the 12th century in what is now northwest Cambodia […]
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The Importance of Non-Makers
“…I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others—above all, the caregivers—whose work isn’t about something you can put in a box and sell.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not […]
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My Sketchup Adventure
This first assignment in the course involved us using the application Sketchup to create a basic 3D model of our house from where we grew up. At the beginning before we began playing around with the software, the task seemed daunting since designing a house is something that requires years of education and practice. However, […]
