For this tutorial, I chose something simple that Austin ran through briefly in class, and I thought it would be helpful for those interested and/or intimidated by making bibliographies (such as myself) to make a short tutorial about this easy-to-use… Continue Reading
Flourish is a website that makes data visualization easy and aesthetically pleasing. They do all the dirty work for you so all you have to do is organize the data. It is a great tool for when you need to… 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
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
If you’re like me, you’re into maps, and you most likely want to graph meaningful things onto them. However, when given a dataset, usually the locations are not formatted in a way that is easy to map. Often they are… Continue Reading
Datawrapper is a free data visualization tool for easily embedding interactive charts, maps, and tables to new stories and websites. Created for news stories, it has since grown, but the sentiment of creating a data visualization in one click remains.… Continue Reading
Timelines are incredibly useful tools to visualize data. They allow us to see changes over time and connect related events. I explored the tool TimelineJS first in my Music and Movement in Atlantic World History class. TimelineJS allows you to… Continue Reading
What I found was a neat tool called Wordle. No, not that wordle! “Wordle” is a tool used for generating word clouds from the text that is pasted. Sadly the original “Wordle” has been shut down (not sure why, but… Continue Reading
Introduction: This is a tool that allows one to scrape useful information off HTML webpages using R. SelectorGadget allows one to interactively select and deselect elements of a webpage and then use that selector to scrape them into a usable… Continue Reading
Flourish is a web-based data visualization tool that allows users to create nice-looking, animated charts with minimal effort. Users can export the charts as images or embed them in their own websites. Flourish’s combination of customizability and usability offers a… Continue Reading
