For our final project (which you can find here), we studied the content and layout of Carleton.edu between 1994-2020. We performed text analysis with Voyant tools to find the most common words that appeared on the website each year, and… Continue Reading
ImageJ is a powerful image-processing tool that was created by the National Institute of Health. Although originally intended for research in the life-sciences, it has now become a popular tool used in wide variety of academic studies. It uses Java… Continue Reading
Team Wayback members: Chisom, Kavon, Gabby, Sean, Alyssa Progress: We have collected our data from the WayBack site and made a collective google drive folder with screenshots and links to the screen-capture we are using from each year. Using this… Continue Reading
I chose to perform data visualization on the Tate Museum artist data set, which you can find here. I looked at the diversity in geographic origin of the artists, as well as the gender ratio.
There’s a widespread idea that “People who make things are simply different [read: better] than those who don’t.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23, 2015. In this quote, Chachra points out the cultural tendency to… Continue Reading
I explored Inventing Abstraction by MOMA, which is a project about displaying the connections between the pioneering artists of abstract art. The nodes of the diagram are the artists, and the edges are the documented relationships between them, represented by… Continue Reading
Isao Hashimoto’s “2053” is a 14 minute time-lapse animation of every nuclear explosion that occurred between 1945-1998. It uses geographical and time data to tell its story, providing the viewer with information on the location, the month and year of… Continue Reading
I had a lot of fun playing around with SketchUp. After watching the tutorial videos, I spent a while longer building random shapes and buildings so that I could get more comfortable with the tools. When it came time to… Continue Reading
Having never worked with WordPress before, navigating the backend for the first time was a bit challenging. Although there are still lots of tools I am unfamiliar with, I am happy that I was able to figure out how to… Continue Reading
Should humanities students learn to code? I think yes. But I want to make clear that by saying yes, I am not arguing that they must learn to code, nor am I saying that coding is a necessary skill in… Continue Reading
