An item on every student’s bucket list is to look at the microform collection at Carleton’s Gould library before graduation. After working through this tutorial, you should be able to check this one off (if you so wish to do… Continue Reading
Progress Thus far, we have scanned three college catalogs for each college type: For liberal arts colleges, we scanned Carleton College, Lewis and Clark College, and Reed College For public colleges, we scanned UCLA, Georgia State University, and San Francisco… Continue Reading
For my midterm, I looked at the relationship between the the country of birth and country of death of artists from this dataset. Here is a link to my project.
Navigating ArcGIS was a fun process! Being able to upload a dataset with spatial information and have it plotted is an incredibly powerful tool, and especially useful when uploading multiple datasets. For my web app, I overlaid the squirrel sightings… Continue Reading
For this assignment, I georeferenced an index map of the ordnance survey of England and Wales on the scale of four miles to the inch. The map was depicted in 1901 and published in 1902. Here is a link to… Continue Reading
The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project is an open source, collaborative work designed to visualize connections between Francis Bacon and other early philosophers and scholars in their work based on data located in a database full of texts. The… Continue Reading
After following the steps, I have a website. The WordPress interface made it extremely easy for me to set up a basic website with customization actions like changing the theme and file structure. Even though I have a strong programming… Continue Reading
My opinion is that we should learn to code. Why? Because the ability of thinking about how certain problems are/can be solved via programming is invaluable skill- without it, you aren’t able to discern what is and isn’t possible. An… Continue Reading
Linked Jazz is an initiative spearheaded by Director Prof. Cristina Pattuelli at the Pratt Institute School of Library Information Science. The project is primarily based in History and Jazz fields of academia, and the objective of the project is to… Continue Reading
When reading literature about the possibilities for cultural production, I immediately think of the impact of social media. Once primarily used to link people together (read here about the genesis of Facebook), social media platforms offer a unique medium for… Continue Reading
