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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Tutorial for TimeMapper
TimeMapper vs. ArcGIS’s StoryMap Today I will present you a tutorial of using TimeMapper to create your own timeline map with ease. Although my group used ArcGIS’s StoryMap to build our final project, I found this TimeMapper a great tool to display texts with its coherent story on maps more efficiently. ArcGIS’s StoryMap is more […]
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Tutorial Assignment
Author: Zhihan Yang Introduction Two weeks ago, I read about a tool that can extract the main colors from (photos of) paintings. This tool uses the k-means algorithm to group pixels into a user-specified number of major colors. A painting can easily contain millions of different colors; this tool reduces this number into a manageable […]
The tool I selected for my tutorial is called Autodesk Inventor. Autodesk Inventor is a computer-aided design application for 3D mechanical design. Whereas the SketchUp program we used was geared more towards architectural and interior design, Autodesk Inventor is geared more towards product design and engineering. Although it is geared more towards engineering, I have […]
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Flourish Studio Tutorial
Flourish Studio is a web-based data visualization tool born out of developers Duncan Clark and Robin Houston’s desires to create a visualization tool easily accessible and usable for non-coders. After creating a free account (with paid options available), users of Flourish gain access to dozens of templates for data visualization, from simple bar graphs to […]
Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application that supports high resolution video editing, Audio Sample level editing, and Surround Sound mixing. Beyond that, Premiere also has the ability to support 3D video editing utilizing 2D monitors. Audition is a supplement to Premier in that it allows for more extensive and technical audio modification. They […]
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 […]
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Recording Audio with Audacity
Or: “The Tutorial the RIAA Doesn’t Want You to Have” by Gin Coffin Introduction If you have a computer, chances are that you listen to audio on it. Probably you listen to even more than you realize: audio is an ever-present part of the internet, computer games and programs, and even many operating systems. But […]
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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Project Update
Team PLM: Mike Kombate, Diana De La Paz, Gaby Lazo Progress Since our last blog post, our group has worked hard to develop a clearer theme to visualize with our project. We want to focus our project on a specific piece of media we found in the archives: “Carleton Today,” a film reel taken sometime […]
Buildings rise and fall, classes come and go, but the culture remains in place.
I took the 1900-1929 artist data from Tate, and used ArcGIS to display a pattern among UK-born artists:
For my midterm I developed a geographic map, based on metadata obtained from github. of the locations in which Cushman took photographs from 1962 to 1963.
ArcGIS, with its mystical mapping powers and data-sharing capabilities allowed me to create my map. The map lies at the intersection of three very important things for any New Yorker (I would assume — I’m from CA): squirrels, subways, and and themselves. The map clearly and artistically displays the count and color of squirrels habituated […]
Using ArcGIS Online and the data provided by the Squirrel Census, I was able to create a map that displays the population diversity index of humans in 2019 and the different colors of squirrels found in Central Park. Although this information doesn’t really correlate I had a lot of fun creating the map. I am […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Squirrel Park
A map of the distribution of squirrels in Central Park, New York. Created on ArcGIS and with a squirrel census data made public by Katherine Walden at Grinnell College. I changed the icon size in order to display the data in a way I felt held more integrity to the data, and configured the pop-up […]
I have made an interactive map showing the density of squirrels’ population in New York’s central park alongside with the base map of New York city’s population density. By applying two different layers of data(one of them chose from online ArcGIS data set), I have clearly showed the two spices’ population comparison. The link below […]
(This is an incredibly late post, but in my defense – I changed my mind on some things in the process of writing this, and I just couldn’t get myself to finish any faster. Better late than never? Anyway…) Humanities students should “learn to program” in the sense that Evan Donahue describes it: by engaging […]
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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, […]
Last week we had the opportunity to learn a little about coding, and this week we also did a light dive into CSS, JAVA, and HTML. The phrase that seems to have perforated all those lessons and truly, at least for me, marked their advent was “Hello World.” In starting the unit we were introduced […]
Making a website on WordPress was NOT easy. Despite it being a popular site for blogs, I found myself struggling every step of the way to create my own blog. Too often I felt overwhelmed by the many options WordPress gave me when I was trying to change something minimal like the text alignment on […]
The first website I ever created was a gaming website, as in it was a website wherein I inserted as many Miniclip game plug-ins as I possibly could and then declared myself the true Miniclip. It was 2010, I was 9 years old, and people theoretically still used MySpace. I cannot remember the URL (nor […]
I have always wanted to create a personal blog to share my comments and interpretations on art pieces. As an art history major student, I need to write in order to learn and retrospect. I felt rewarding when setting up my website following the instructions. However, I do not expect this website could attract more […]
In this course’s introduction to coding, I had the opportunity to refresh my knowledge and abilities in programming. In high school I had the opportunity to take a computer programming class. A class in which we spent an entire term learning how to code using Java. My experience with the tutorials offered by HTML Dog […]
It feels like with every passing day technology is finding new ways to incorporate itself into our lives. However, our understanding of such technology has been slow to catch up with the pace at which it is being produced. This is due in part to the ideas and feelings that most people have about coding. […]
I believe it is no good for DH subject to requiring its followers to learn coding techniques. Why? Because coding is just like a language, which nowadays could be replaced by an online translator. It is a fact that we haven’t got the ability to develop a thorough enough interface that can handle all kinds […]
Coding is our future. No matter how I try to work around that statement or spin it to find a counterargument, nothing can truly contest that fact. And it is a fact — not just in terms of our futures as members of the work force, but as members of a world whose various disciplines […]
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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 […]
