As the class has learned in this term, Voyant Tools is a text analysis tool that has the ability to analyze any number of texts, including some samples in its own database. In this tutorial, I’ll do an extension of… Continue Reading
Boy oh boy, did I struggle with this one. My dataset was from Project Gutenberg, and it included the works Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, King Lear, and last but not least, Votes for Women. Its… Continue Reading
If I must say one thing, it’s that historical mapping looked easy until I tried it. As you should be able to see, in order to make my map look even remotely accurate, I had to warp it significantly, and… Continue Reading
Is the story we know from a public school’s history textbook everything there is to know about homesteading in the United States? We can guess the answer to be no, but the Homesteading the Plains project (linked) and associated book… Continue Reading
I set up my site! You can check it out here. I’ve run a couple of web pages before, and they’re quite fun when it comes to freedoms of setup and personalization, but unfortunately, they are also much less advertised… Continue Reading
The Internet is ever-expanding and also ever-modifying, and so too is humankind. Where twenty years ago we were significantly less reliant upon modern technology to get by, more and more, just about all professions require some kind of involvement with… Continue Reading
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America is a project that aims both to make information about the work of the HOLC more accessible and to keep an active discourse and awareness of the ways in which it was problematic… Continue Reading
Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the traditionally male domain of making, … devalues the traditionally female domain of caregiving, by continuing to enforce the idea that only making things is valuable. Chachra, Debbie. “Why I… Continue Reading
ABOVE: IMAGE 1: Front view of end-unit condo complex. If it doesn’t show up, shucks. I’m new to this :/ PREFACE AND ATTEMPTED HUMOR If you can believe it when looking at this artistry, I am not in fact an… Continue Reading
