The Summer Studio Fellowship created an experience centered on exploration. The combination of being introduced to new tools, campus resources, and being given time created a space with which to examine the role data plays in my scholarship and how I communicate my work. In studying the New Deal, agency reports startContinue reading “Visualizing the New Deal for Youth”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Trotting along on my digital journey!
It has been a fascinating few weeks working on my digital project as well as attending the classes during the summer. A reminder of what I have been working on: I am developing a website/ web portfolio of my professional information, and my past and current research work. During summer, I was able toContinue reading “Trotting along on my digital journey!”
Qianyi’s Fellowship Update and Reflection
Since my last post, I paused a little bit on the visualization of the networks on Meetup.com. Instead, I worked more on reading the literature on group dynamics, social networks, and organizational ecology and finalizing my research questions for my dissertation which this project is part of. The finalized core research question is: what makesContinue reading “Qianyi’s Fellowship Update and Reflection”
Crises of Confidence
Hey blog, it’s Julianna again. In my previous post, I described the film I pitched… and how my life exploded this summer. (The too-long-didn’t-read: there was an accident, a week in STICU, and an aborted film shoot.) GIF: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just digitized and archived 497 (mesmerizing, terrifying) films of early nuclearContinue reading “Crises of Confidence”
Framing the Love Plot
Since my last post, I settled upon collecting films with references to honeymoons and more broadly, to films that adhere to a romance narrative. Using IMDB’s keyword search, I researched films that contained words such as “newlyweds” and “honeymoon” in their plot description. I then ran a search for the films within UIowa’s media libraryContinue reading “Framing the Love Plot”
Visualizing 1930s Public Health
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”
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