I think that humanities students should learn to code. Although it is not always necessary for the work we do, it makes us better collaborators and broadens our understanding of what is possible. I agree with Donahue that it’s important… Continue Reading
Access my blog site here! At first I chose a colorful theme that had a large rooster head, and it was advertised as having lots of fun animals. But after setting it as the theme, I found that I could… 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
“Inventing Abstraction 1910 – 1925” is an interactive exhibit created by the MOMA to showcase how abstraction, modernism’s greatest innovation, was created and nurtured. For three and a half months, the MOMA made daily posts that supplemented their physical exhibition.… Continue Reading
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
I decided to look into the project ‘Six Degrees of Francis Bacon’ hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. It is an interactive visualization of the social networks between people in early modern England around the time of the Elizabethan Era. This… Continue Reading
Like their print predecessors, format conventions in screen environments can become naturalized all too quickly, with the result that the thinking that informed their design goes unperceived. Burdick et al. “One: Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT… Continue Reading
Each node in this project was a re-captured, escaped slave. The project did an interesting job tracking the paths of runaway slaves. Runaway slaves typically had one of a couple strategies. The first, was to lay-low near where they had… Continue Reading
In Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, scholars have reconstructed an early modern British social network to visualize which influential figures knew one another and socialized in the same circles. The digital humanities project uses network analysis to represent these individuals… Continue Reading
The nodes in this network are artist each having something that forms a connection (edge) with another specific individual. In order to see each persons characteristics and background information the viewer needs to click on a node and the network… Continue Reading
