Category: Assignments
16: Visualization
Today we are exploring some dos and don’ts of data visualization as you prepare the final versions of your projects. Below is a a provisional list of links to explore during class. Th... Read More15: Tutorial Blog Post
Due MONDAY, 3/2 For this assignment, create a step-by-step tutorial as a blog post demonstrating a particular technique, tool, or other helpful how-to discovery you’ve made over the past several wee... Read More14: Network Analysis: A Real-World Project
A Social Network of Carleton College in the 1890s Today we are going to try out a real-world network analysis project and attempt to reconstruct the social network of Carleton College around its 25... Read More13: Network Analysis
The advent of the internet, and especially of its more socially connected Web 2.0 variant, has ushered in a golden age for the concept of the network. The interconnected world we now live in has cha... Read More12: 3D Mapping and Data Integration
Today we are finally going to see how we can integrate the SketchUp work we’ve been doing since week one with the other spatial and historical information we’ve been collecting ... Read More11. Intro to ArcGIS Desktop
The instructions in this post are very abbreviated to remind you of the steps we took in class. Each exercise includes links to online resources that step you through similar processes in much more ... Read More10: Google Maps API/ArcGIS Online
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of web mapping tools and platforms. These tools have long allowed the simple display of and basic interactions with spatially referenced data, but unt... Read More9. Spatial Humanities: Web Mapping 101
For the next two weeks we will be exploring the spatial humanities — a vibrant and increasingly popular area of digital humanities research. Humanities scholarship is currently undergoing a &#... Read More
