I looked at The Rhythm of Food by Google News Lab and Truth & Beauty. This project displays the trend in meal and food searches on google throughout the year, showcasing the seasonal patterns of specific foods or recipes. They… Continue Reading
http://goodmans2.sites.carleton.edu/ I am not the most tech-savvy person, but creating my website was actually a fairly quick process. I think most of the difficulty comes in creating the small details of the site, but other than that, the process was… Continue Reading
Brian Sarnacki’s Corruption and Reform Network Analysis presented the relations between social elites in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of whom many were involved in a Water Scandal at the turn of the 20th century. Four different Network Analysis were presented on… Continue Reading
I worked with a map titled ‘Hitler’s Next Move! Will He Demand Return of Colonies’ on the David Rumsey Map Collection website and was pleasantly surprised by how easy the website was to navigate. It is home to a vast… Continue Reading
There’s a widespread idea that “People who make things are simply different [read: better] than those who don’t.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23, 2015. In this quote, Chachra points out the cultural tendency to… Continue Reading
As someone who is working on her Stats comps on network analysis, I found it quite interesting to see how networks could be applied to different areas in the humanities. The project I decided to explore is called Using Metadata… Continue Reading
I was interested in multiple aspects of Lin’s presentation, but the one that stood out most to me is the importance of color. Like Lin said, the colors with which data are represented have a huge effect on our perception… Continue Reading
Students and scholars at Rice University created a site that showcased a few digital history methods that used a sample data set of nineteenth-century runaway slave ads. Below is one of their data visualization with Mapping Points: Using Palladio and… Continue Reading
The website Six Degrees of Francis Bacon shows the description of the social network of Francis Bacon, which is a digital reconstruction of the early social connections between scholars and students. This particular network works by creating a bubble/point for… 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
