Today, we will be learning how to read and write .csv files in Python. This skill can be especially useful for data collection — say you have a series of .csv files and want to join them together, or a… Continue Reading
We began this week by contacting the Career Center, Alumni Relations, the Admissions Office, the Dean of Students, Gould Library, and Institutional Research & Assessment Office. While we heard back from many of the offices, they unfortunately did not have… Continue Reading
Grace, Ray, Dominic, David, Henrie, Ethan For our project, we will be producing two maps in ArcGIS: one of where Carleton students are from, and one of where alumni live. We hope to analyze these maps in conversation with one… Continue Reading
Here is my midterm. In this project, I examine the use of the word “love” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream using Voyant Tools.
I was interested in multiple aspects of Lin’s presentation, but the one that stood out most to me is the importance of color. Like Lin said, the colors with which data are represented have a huge effect on our perception… Continue Reading
Building my new website took a bit of getting used to at first — I still haven’t figured out all the things that I can do with WordPress. But I was able to mostly figure things out. The thing I’m… Continue Reading
Humanities students who are not interested in DH should not be forced to learn how to code. However, as I am learning more about even simple HTML coding, I think that it is essential that students who are interested in… Continue Reading
Authorial London is a platform that allows users to explore the literary history of London through an interactive map complete with informational text boxes and photos. Developed by the Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research, the project hopes to provide… Continue Reading
What this means is that the visual becomes ever more fundamental to the Digital Humanities, in ways that complement, enhance, and sometimes are in tension with the textual. There is no either/or, no simple interchangeability between language and the visual,… Continue Reading
The process of using SketchUp to make a model of my childhood home was alternately frustrating and exhilarating. As a first-time user of SketchUp, I got very frustrated with the seemingly counter-intuitive commands — the “select” tool could not be… Continue Reading
