For this post, I will be analyzing and commenting on Isao Hashimoto’s piece “2053”. I will start by saying the project speaks volumes, it tells the story of an arms race with arguably the most destructive weapon we have ever… Continue Reading
For our final project, we explored the rich history of Carleton College’s traditions. On our website, we have a timeline of all of Carleton’s past and present traditions and individual pages giving more detailed information on each tradition. We also… Continue Reading
One great advantage of transitioning from paper to digital is that photos and documents are less prone to physical damage. If a physical image does get damaged, however, there are powerful tools that enable people to repair them digitally. These… Continue Reading
Data visualization is important when analyzing and presenting findings. As working with excel is already so accessible, using PowerBI is a no-brainer when it is so seamless. Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide… Continue Reading
I made this poster in Adobe Illustrator! It is an informative infographic which gives a basic overview of what Digital Humanities is. Adobe Illustrator is really useful for presenting Digital Humanities research in a compelling, aesthetically pleasing way. For example,… Continue Reading
In this project, I will be using a data set that analyzes movie data from various movie production companies. In particular, I thought it would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between the budget of a movie… Continue Reading
Today, we will be learning how to read and write .csv files in Python. This skill can be especially useful for data collection — say you have a series of .csv files and want to join them together, or a… Continue Reading
Data visualization is essential for understanding, analyzing, and presenting your data. While there are many data visualization tools available such as Flourish, ggplot2 is one of the most popular tools best known for its flexibility and reproducibility. ggplot2 is a… Continue Reading
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
I decided to do a video tutorial on how to use the data visualization tool TimelineJS. I had used this website for the midterm and I thought that it was a relatively easy tool to use. Using Google Spreadsheets, one… Continue Reading
