As my last post discussed, my project this summer deals with a series of monthly reports by public health nurses in 1930s Native American communities. Each report includes statistics and a narrative description of the nurse’s work. The narratives are often detailed and evocative, and sometimes represent indigenous voices—those of the handful of Native womenContinue reading “Visualizing 1930s Public Health”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Clustering cancer patients with different symptom patterns over time: 2nd blog post
During the last few weeks of the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Fellowship, I am revising my methodology paper as I discussed with my committee in the last meeting. In the previous data set, the dates of the first cycle of chemotherapy, treatments, diagnoses, and deaths were inaccurate. Thus, I obtained updated dates for theContinue reading “Clustering cancer patients with different symptom patterns over time: 2nd blog post”
Blog post number two
The first two to three weeks of the Summer Fellowship were a flurry of data mining and expanding my digital map, but the last three have been a slow crawl through scholarship on Christian pilgrimage in the Holy Land, data cleaning, and endless online tutorials teaching me how to use ArcMap’s toolbox to analyze whatContinue reading “Blog post number two”
Working with Experts to Improve a Museum App
The first half of my time with the Studio was a whirlwind of design, iterations, reading, reflecting, and revising. I spent most days alone in a cubicle staring at a screen working alone and made rapid progress (as I shared here). The second half of my project transitioned from getting my ideas out of myContinue reading “Working with Experts to Improve a Museum App”
A Tale of Travel
I’ve been hard at work with data entry for my project this summer, see my full thoughts in my vlog below! -Mac Gill
Analyzing microtones and writing them for western classical instruments
At this stage of the research, I selected 4 recorded audio examples all performed in one mode (3 pre-recorded and my own recording); first, in order to measure the frequencies and then, to look at the potential deferences between them. Our performed sample is the third measure of the previous report (D, raised E-flat, F,Continue reading “Analyzing microtones and writing them for western classical instruments”
Teaching Digital Music Digitally
Over the last several weeks I have been continuing to work on creating tutorial videos for works with trumpet a interactive electronics that will be appearing on my album I plan to release in December as part of my DMA thesis project. Since my last post I met with my Studio points of contact whoContinue reading “Teaching Digital Music Digitally”
Animating the US Social Safety Net
In my previous post, I described my project on visualizing patterns of US social safety net provisions over time. During the past several weeks, I took a deep dive into R visualizations to develop a GIF which animates changes overtime in US cash assistance generosity (i.e. the value of the assistance recipients receive on average)Continue reading “Animating the US Social Safety Net”
Mapping Memory: Athletes, Commemoration, and Public Statuary
When I first started my project at the Studio, I had no idea what to expect. I had some grand ideas of visualizing my project through a mapping program. I knew I wanted photos, I knew I wanted small descriptions of each statue, and I knew that the placement of these statues was of theContinue reading “Mapping Memory: Athletes, Commemoration, and Public Statuary”
New Deal Youth Programs in Iowa
During the Great Depression, youth, a group young enough to be in school, while old enough to enter the workforce, worried American political leaders. The fear was that they would follow the path of youth in Germany or the Soviet Union and bring drastic change to the American political system. To alleviateContinue reading “New Deal Youth Programs in Iowa”