Tutorial: GitHub
GitHub is an online space where people can write, share, and collaborate on projects. There is a lot that programmers can do with GitHub, but you do not need to know how to code to use it! It can instead… Continue Reading
Author: Henrie F
Final Project: Week 8 Update
So for, the project has been very interesting! My groupmates all made significant contributions over the weekend, finding, scraping, cleaning, and organizing most of the data we’ll need. So far, I have contacted the Gould library to attempt to get… Continue Reading
Final Project: Personal Interest
Our group final project is going to look at the spatial distribution of where Carleton students come from and where our alumni are now. This will be a particularly interesting project for me personally because my experience at Carleton has… Continue Reading
Midterm: Omeka Exhibit of Barnett Freedman’s Artwork
My midterm project is a visual exhibit of some of Barnett Freedman’s artwork using Omeka that analyzes his depictions of two contrasting states: solitude and togetherness. My midterm site can be found here.
Assignment: Network Analysis Exploration
In Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere, Kieran Healy gives a very clear and insightful look into networks and the ways they can be used to glean important information. Healy shows that the same network data can be used in… Continue Reading
Assignment: Data Visualization Dos and Don’ts
This map, created by Charles Minard to represent Napolean’s Russian Campaign of 1812, is a great example how thinking outside of the standard, prescribed-chart box can relate lots of complex data in a simple visual. Perhaps the most striking feature,… Continue Reading
Assignment 3.1 – Setting Up My Site
Over winter break, I was able to work with Carleton’s German Department to begin setting up a site using WordPress. For my first time using the platform, I quickly found that I thoroughly enjoyed the design aspects of creating a… Continue Reading
Lab: Web Development Fundamentals
Coding is an invaluable skill in our increasingly digital and technology-driven world, but it should not be a requirement or even an expectation for those in the humanities. When I first considered the argument of whether or not humanities students… Continue Reading
Analyzing DH Projects Lab: The Rhythm of Food
The Rhythm of Food, an online collaboration between Google News Labs and Truth & Beauty, is an incredibly aesthetically pleasing and interactive project that illustrates the Google Search trends for various foods in the United States in the last 15… Continue Reading
Quotation Assignment: The Role of Gender in Digital Humanities
A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the… Continue Reading
