Authors: Grace Brindle, Dominic Enriquez, Henrie Friesen, Ethan Li, David Rubin, Ray Xu For our final project, we decided to look at the geographic diversification of both Carleton’s student body as well as our alumni network over the years. We… Continue Reading
Have you ever wondered how a website knows that you’ve input a valid email address or phone number when signing up for an account? Maybe you’d like to parse through a website or text file, searching for and storing all… Continue Reading
For my midterm, I chose to focus my textual analysis on the most common word found in the corpus of A Midsummer night’s Dream: love. Specifically, by analyzing the word’s correlation with various character names, I toyed with the notion… Continue Reading
It’s an all too familiar story: “Oh! You know Bobby? My cousin’s friend’s sister’s niece’s roommate’s brother is on the same baseball team as him!” Academics are guilty of this too, Mathematicians like to quantify their Erdős Number as a… Continue Reading
In a world of ever increasing information and data, it is now more important than ever to find ways to properly visualize and interperet that data. The gallery that Michael Friendly has cultivated of some of the infographics that he… Continue Reading
After a bit of tinkering, and a stint of indecisiveness over which theme I liked best, I was able to piece together what I feel is a solid foundation for a WordPress website! My blog can be found here. There… Continue Reading
“Many of us in the humanities think our colleagues across the campus in the computer-science department spend most of their time debugging software. This is no more true than the notion that English professors spend most of their time correcting… Continue Reading
In an world of everincreasing interconnectedness, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how substantial and omnipresent social media is. By simply clicking the “send tweet” button, I can share my ideas with a vast web of people from all around… Continue Reading
Making is not a rebel movement, scrappy individuals going up against the system. While the shift might be from the corporate to the individual (supported, mind, by a different set of companies selling a different set of things), it mostly… Continue Reading
As a not-so-artistically-inclined individual, the relatively simple task at hand of creating a rough-sketch of my childhood home felt daunting, to say the least. While I would consider this assignment difficult, I certainly still ultimately enjoyed myself, and appreciate the… Continue Reading
