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Hacking the Humanities

IDSC 130, Carleton College, Winter Term 2015

  • About
    • Acknowledgements
  • Course Details
  • Syllabus
  • Assignments
    • Week 1: Intro
    • Week 2: Client-side code
    • Week 3: Database back end
    • Week 4: Text analysis + XML
    • Week 5: Spatial Humanities I
    • Week 6: Spatial Humanities II
    • Week 7: Network Analysis
    • Week 8: Visualization
    • Week 9: Project Preparation
  • Blog
  • Group Projects
    • The Carleton Dining Experience
    • Student Life… in their own words
    • Financial Data Viz
    • Campus History in 3D
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Category: Group Projects

Student Life at Carleton 100 Years Ago

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Maureen Kalkowski-Farrand
How was student life at Carleton 100 years ago? Our group set out to learn about Carleton life before 1916. Here is our final project on student life at Carleton. It has certainly changed in the last ... Read More

Building an Elite College

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Kevin Grow
Our project examines nine buildings at Carleton – existing and not – and the way they contributed to Carleton’s goals to becoming an elite school. The various aspects we look at are the ... Read More

Carleton Dining Experience

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jamaica
The Carleton Dining Experience: Food is a topic of major interest on campus today. From groups like FireBellies to Food Truth, food is a constant topic of conversation. Everybody eats! Carleton studen... Read More

Carleton’s Investments: Project Update

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Matt Godfrey
We know this is a little late, but we didn’t have much to update anyone on before late last week. We were initially interested in Carleton’s investment portfolio and analyzing how it has chang... Read More

Student Life Project Update

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Megan Gleason
So far, our group has listened to and partly transcribed the (few) recorded oral histories given by alumni prior to the class of 1917, gathering details about four individuals’ lives at Carleto... Read More

Carleton Dining Project Proposal Update

Posted on February 23, 2015 by landk
Our project is starting to take shape as we gather information and reconsider our initial research questions. We have narrowed our field of focus and decided to break down our first question (What was... Read More

“Building” an Elite College Update

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Kevin Grow
Project by Colin Pi, Carrie Hanson, and Kevin Grow Our project examines nine buildings at Carleton – existing and not – and the way they contributed to Carleton’s goals to become an elit... Read More

Student Life at Carleton in Their Own Words, 100 Years Ago

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Adron Mason
Our group’s project seeks to bring ArcGIS technology to bear to help tell the stories of early Carleton students. We will produce a map of the old campus that traces the social networks and nexuses ... Read More

The Carleton Dining Experience

Posted on February 2, 2015 by landk
Topic: Food is a topic of major interest on campus today. From groups like FireBellies to Food Truth, food is a constant topic of conversation. Everybody eats! Carleton students today are familiar wit... Read More

An analysis of Carleton College’s financial and economic strategy throughout history

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Austin Mason
An analysis of Carleton College’s financial and economic strategy throughout history. We want to examine Carleton’s financial behavior with an emphasis on the historical context during the tim... Read More
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