Hello Digital Humanists, today I’ll talk about how to analyze data and clean small datasets with Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel. This is one of Excel’s best features, in my humble opinion. I’m not sure how different/available this will be… Continue Reading
It is at this point I’m realizing that I probably didn’t do this project quite right. There isn’t a whole lot I can do about that now, so here’s the link to my site’s subdomain. My project looks at both… Continue Reading
Link: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/ In this project, the author creates an alternate history scenario in which the British Crown is using metadata analysis to find potential “terrorists”, ultimately finding Paul Revere as particularly suspicious. It’s actually a little funny to get drawn… Continue Reading
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY&feature=emb_title 2053 is a project by a man named Isao Hashimoto that visually displays all of the nuclear explosions on Earth between the 1945 Trinity test up to the 1998 Pakistan nuclear tests. Since the project started in 2003,… Continue Reading
Link: http://scotte.sites.carleton.edu/dgah110/about-me/ I’m not 100% sure I did everything right, it doesn’t look like the main page (remove the /about-me/ part of the URL) is very secure, but I don’t really know what to do about that at the moment.… Continue Reading
This may fall into the pro-coding side or the rejects-the-premise side, but honestly I think a binary “coder vs non-coder” mindset isn’t helpful here. No, most people involved in the digital humanities <i>need</i> to know how to code, especially to… Continue Reading
Link: http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/?ids=10000473&min_confidence=60&type=network There’s a game called “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”, where a person attempts to figure out how many degrees of separation there are between the actor Kevin Bacon and any particular movie, actor, or director. While Sir Francis… Continue Reading
“Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the traditionally male domain of making, has focused on the first. But its success means that it further devalues the traditionally female domain of caregiving, by continuing to enforce the… Continue Reading
Quick SketchUp model of the house I grew up in (and am currently in now). Far from perfect, the program started refusing to work half the time at heights higher than 10 feet for some reason, but it’s basically complete.… Continue Reading
