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 […]
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 […]
“The problem is the idea that the alternative to making is usually not doing nothing…” Why I Am Not a Maker, Debbie Chachra This passage grabbed my attention because it reminded me about how society can often assume false binaries. In this example, if you don’t “make” something for a living (coding and engineering are two […]
