Midterm Project
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Digital Humanities
Sunny’s Midterm – Carver Analysis
Here is the link to my blog for this midterm. I used a dataset from the book “Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768”, the author being Jonathan Carver. The primary source… Continue Reading
Francis Bacon is Everywhere
Francis Bacon is everywhere. That’s what the website “Six Degrees of Francis Bacon” shows its viewer through a huge network of thousands of vertices which connect him to not only the queen of England, but Thomas Hobbes and Julius Caesar!… Continue Reading
Ye Old Carleton
I found an Old Map of Carleton! The process of getting the actual maps together was not too bad. I appreciated some of the features that you can add (points, lines, etc.) and how you can add multiple maps. The… Continue Reading
Web Mapping Squirrel Population in NYC’s Central Park
Here is the link to the post with the embedded map page on my website. I really enjoyed the process of web mapping using the ArcGIS online platform. Not only the lab instructions are very straightforward, but the platform interface… Continue Reading
GEORECTIFY A HISTORIC MAP
My <This Map> page can be seen here. The map I used is called Mercators Chart, and was depicted and published at 1808. This process of rectifying a historic map was an interesting experience, as it was fun to see… Continue Reading
Georectifying Ireland
I had a lot of fun rectifying historical maps on the David Rumsey Georeferencer webpage. When I was browsing through the David Rumsey Map Collection, I was blown away by the variety of maps and the extensiveness of this collection. Using modern… Continue Reading
INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK ANALYSIS
Introduction to Network Analysis is a guide for users to conduct network analysis in Gephi. The website provides example data including information about scholars working in Digital Humanities. Based on the data given by the website, the node refers to… Continue Reading
Time for Bacon!
I’m going to be honest. When I saw ‘Francis Bacon’, my mind went to ‘Kevin Bacon’, so that’s why I check out this project. Still, I found it pretty interesting. ‘The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon’ is an everchanging dataset… Continue Reading
Analyzing “Mapping Prejudice”
I chose “Mapping Prejudice” from the University of Minnesota for this blog post. This project is a coalition of historians, geographers, digital humanists, and activists who are looking to “expose structural racism.” There is obviously a message being sent by… Continue Reading
