WordPress makes creating a website much easier by removing the programming barrier. By using blocks, widgets, and menus one can customize various aspects of a webpage without ever having to interact with HTML or CSS. That being said, this comes with some creative limitations being that you are forced to adhere to the templates and […]
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For my midterm, I combined the Tate artist and artwork data to map the birthplace of the different artists and connect them to their artwork.
A map that plots different squirrel sightings in Central Park as well as the average US household income in different areas. The data for the squirrel sightings was made public by Katherine Walden at Grinnell College. To create the map, I started with a base layer of a street map. I then layered the squirrel […]
Drawbacks? While this a great way to communicate with others, it has drawbacks as opposed to using a social media platform or some other platform. First, one thing that can either be a benefit or a drawback is the number of choices one has with this type of platform. Personally, I would prefer a social […]
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The value of coding for humanities
“Virtual worlds will be to the new century what cinema was to the last one and the novel to the century before that.” Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “Hello Worlds (Why Humanities Students Should Learn to Program).” WordPress, 23 May 2010, mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/hello-worlds/. As a prospective CS major, I don’t believe it is very surprising that I agree with […]
The Georgetown Slavery Archive is an online digital repository that archives a variety of different bills and documents relating to Georgetown University, the Maryland Jesuits, and slavery. The archive is also a part of Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative. The project is still a work in progress and it was launched in February […]
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Passage Assignment
“Almost all the artifacts that we value as a society were made by or at the order of men. But behind every one is an invisible infrastructure of labor…” Why I Am Not a Maker, Debbie Chachra This passage grabbed my attention because it was something I had never thought about. As I started to […]
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Sketchup House Project
I found the process of creating a house on SketchUp to be fairly intuitive after about half an hour of playing around with the software. I also found the tutorial video by SketchUp on roofs to be very useful. At first, I got bogged down in trying to make things look perfect. I was trying […]
