TimelineJS Demo
I decided to do a video tutorial on how to use the data visualization tool TimelineJS. I had used this website for the midterm and I thought that it was a relatively easy tool to use. Using Google Spreadsheets, one… Continue Reading
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Final Project Proposal: How Has Carleton.edu Changed Over the Years?
Members: Chisom Oguh, Kavon Hooper, Gabby Reynaga, Alyssa Ehrhardt For the project, we will be studying the changes in the Carleton Homepage website between 1996-2020. Source: Using Wayback Machine, we will access screenshots of the carleton.edu website from 1996 to… Continue Reading
A Timeline of Female Artists
I created a timeline of female painters who were born between 1920 and 1935. Here is the link to the site: http://dghmw21midterm.oguhc.sites.carleton.edu/blog/midterm/
Plausible Runaway Paths
Students and scholars at Rice University created a site that showcased a few digital history methods that used a sample data set of nineteenth-century runaway slave ads. Below is one of their data visualization with Mapping Points: Using Palladio and… Continue Reading
What Do I Post About?
I’ve done it. I’ve created my first ever website. I’ve always wanted to publish something on the internet and post things on it (through a YouTube channel or a blog), and now here I am. What I am to do… Continue Reading
A CS Major says “No” to Coding
Read the following quote: “not only could the two areas usefully benefit from one another… but furthermore that in many ways the two are working on exactly the same projects and the very idea that they are, a priori, separate… Continue Reading
A Splash of Green Here, a Bunch of Red There
Looking at the title of the project, I wondered: how could you map inequality? Well, four universities and their 3 research teams showed me how. Using the main source, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s (hereinafter HOLC) maps, racial discrimination was… Continue Reading
5% – The Margin of Error
“The cultural primacy of making, especially in tech culture—that it is intrinsically superior to not-making, to repair, analysis, and especially caregiving—is informed by the gendered history of who made things, and in particular, who made things that were shared with… Continue Reading
3D Home Draft [SketchUp]
Summers ago, I used SketchUp for a summer program. Now, I have attempted to recreate my house. Being the overachiever that I am, I did the inside as well (and included all the doors) which was majorly frustrating. Setting up… Continue Reading
