The Medium of Microfiche is our project that transposes the dusty and overlooked microfiche from Carleton’s collection into a contemporary, interactive digital playground for people to experience an antiquated and forgotten approach to storing information (microfiche). Our project is broken… Continue Reading
This tutorial helps you approach the process of making an interesting data visualization (graph, chart, pattern, image, etc.) by hand. We spent some time in this class learning how to visualize data with digital tools, but we never really took… Continue Reading
Here is a link to my midterm. I chose to map data from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection. Specifically, I mapped data associated with various rolls of film in the collection to visualize Charles Cushman’s physical movements as he… Continue Reading
Here’s my funky ArcGIS mapping experiment! It includes many layers. The layer which I created myself *beautifully* displays a visual of all of the cute little squirrels in New York City’s famous Central Park! I am actually not a big… Continue Reading
Georectifying the “World of Mercator Projection” map gave me some insights into the meaning of maps as visual arguments about the world. The purpose of georectifying a map is to create a more geographically accurate version of a map which… Continue Reading
(just a small and irrelevant psa to announce that I will no longer be using orange font on all of my blog posts. This is sad but it had to happen 🙁 Thank you Austin for pointing me towards WAVE,… Continue Reading
I looked at a project called “Homesteading the Plains” by the University of Nebraska. The project contains many parts, and one of these parts is an interactive network which the authors of this project made in Gephi. What (or who)… Continue Reading
Setting up my WordPress site was really fun and pretty simple. I’ve always wanted to create a WordPress site and so I was surprised at how easy the process was! I’m glad that we I’m getting the opportunity to learn… Continue Reading
<Smiling purple devil emoji> <== yes that could definitely be done with actual HTML but I didn’t feel like it .. I’m in the mood to reject premises I loved the debate we had last class about the question:… Continue Reading
I explored a Digital Humanities project called Archival Gossip. What is the goal of the project? The goal of the project is to push scholars (and other interested readers) to recognize late 19th / early 20th century gossip as a… Continue Reading
