One of the most important things I’ve learned from this class is that Digital Humanities requires collaboration. When I first was making my house model using SketchUp many months ago, I wished that I could have support in creating the… Continue Reading
Members of the group: Maanya Goenka, Luisa Escosteguy, Kaylin Engerman, William Stepanski, Lewis Ching Zhi Yuan and Sophie Lefebvre. For our project, we plan to create a timeline and StoryMap of notable Carleton traditions. We will synthesize work that has… Continue Reading
For my project, I analyzed Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream by looking at the frequency of “positive” and “negative” words throughout the text using Voyant Tools. Here is the link to my project site!
For my Network Analysis project, I looked at the MoMA Inventing Abstraction Project. There are many parts to this project, including displays of abstract art and descriptions of the artists who were pioneers for the abstract art style. The biggest… Continue Reading
For this data visualization project, I looked at The Minard Map, a very popular and well-known graphic. I thought that in many ways, the map lived up to the hype. It was able to show a lot of information (geography,… Continue Reading
After a lot of fiddling around with settings and installing plugins, I’m proud to present my new website! This trimester, this site will act as a hub for my Hacking the Humanities assignments and reflections. When this class is over,… Continue Reading
After reading arguments for and against humanities students learning how to code and coding some myself, I believe that humanities students do not need to learn how to code. Coding is a useful skill that can be used to enhance… Continue Reading
The project The Forced Migration of Enslaved People by Robert K. Nelson, Edward L. Ayers, Justin Madron, and Nathaniel Ayers provides a visual representation of the forced migration of enslaved people in the United States from 1810-1860. The project includes… Continue Reading
It’s not, of course, that there’s anything wrong with making (although it’s not all that clear that the world needs more stuff). The problem is the idea that the alternative to making is usually not doing nothing—it’s almost always doing things for… Continue Reading
At first, I really struggled with SketchUp. I found the tool menu hard to navigate, because there were only small images of the tools, instead of a title or a description of how to use it. The tools were also… Continue Reading
