The internet is full of data processing and visualization software packages that allow people with relatively little computing experience to create polished looking digital projects. However, these softwares often want data in a very specific format which differs from package to package. Each new tool is like a keyhole that necessitates reshaping the data in […]
Author: Spencer
Progress As of the end of class Tuesday we have done our initial text processing in Voyant tools, which indicated to us we would need to do a bit more editing to the data in order to make it machine readable/effective in visualizing the program data. Our personal research has helped us begin making hesitant […]
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Midterm Project
My project takes the Tate artistic data and displays it with two timelines from timelineJS and some alluvial diagrams. I limited the data to only oil painted works to make the data work more nicely with the software.
Considering the fact I’d never touched GIS software before, it’s a bit of a miracle this map works the way it’s supposed to. Even more miraculous is the fact that I was able to embed it below. I believe both are testaments to the power of tutorials and persistence. Also helpful was the ability to […]
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Making a Blog
Well, so I thought I knew what I was doing…oops, I originally posted the following on my own blog as opposed to this one, but now that I understand the assignment better, heres the post about making my blog, the original can be found at lekkis-hist.net “This has been a bit of a new experience, […]
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Why I’m Taking CS111
The title goes a long way to describing my intentions with this post, I want to explain why it is I’m taking CS:111 Intro to Computer Science as a junior history major. As we’ve been discussing the relative merits of humanities students learning to code, I’ve been reflecting on my own choices this term, and […]
Virtual Angkor is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Tom Chandler, Adam Clulow, Bernard Keo, Mike Yeates and Martin Polkinghorne, “Virtual Angkor”, 2018, virtualangkor.com.Posner, Miriam. “How Did They Make That?” Designed primarily as an educational tool to transport students into a […]
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Collaboration in the Liberal Arts
“The field of Digital Humanities may see the emergence of polymaths who can ‘do it all’: who can research, write, shoot, edit, code, model, design, network, and dialogue with users. But there is also ample room for specialization and, particularly, for collaboration.”
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SketchUp Mini Project
I found SketchUp to be a more manageable software in this project than in any of my previous attempts at 3D modeling. This may be in part due to my familiarity with the model in question, my childhood home, but also due to the increased amount of digital collaboration I have undertaken since my first […]
