My project creates the visualization of people’s ‘cognitive structures’ (or mental map) using survey responses, as shown in my previous blog posting. At the end of the summer, I am very happy to share my experience in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio. First, I have explored possible options for choosing available programming packages andContinue reading “Summer Experience and Next Steps”
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Slow but steady…
As the summer fellowship is wrapping up I am finding myself making a few small, but important, breakthroughs in my work. The most recent being the ability to utilize more of the functions of the ArcGIS platform. Specifically the select tool for highlighting information that is relevant for my work. Figure 1. ArcGIS map ofContinue reading “Slow but steady…”
A Summer of Breaking and Building
In the course of the last couple of weeks, I’ve made some significant progress on my project and my website and I’ve come a long way in my understanding of the code that I’ve been trying to use. The various elements have occasionally felt a little bit eclectic as I’ve transitioned from a Codecademy course onContinue reading “A Summer of Breaking and Building”
“Adventures in Real Estate (Part Two)” by Egeon, merchant of Syracuse
To begin, I would like to thank the Graduate College and the University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio for the opportunity to work on my digital project over this summer. To recap, I intended to build an interactive map of nuclear waste transportation routes from operational and retired nuclear reactors to YuccaContinue reading ““Adventures in Real Estate (Part Two)” by Egeon, merchant of Syracuse”
Exploring spacewalk patterns: work done so far
As you might recall from my previous post, I have been working on a prototype tool to visualize spacewalk patterns that occur in short term Mars habitat simulations. My work so far I used R packages shiny, visnetwork, and plotly to create an interactive web application for data exploration. Here is how it looks now: Continue reading “Exploring spacewalk patterns: work done so far”
Hispanic women writers in Iowa: a digital map (part II)
Hispanic women writers in Iowa: a digital map (part II) This past week has been the last part of the project, the wrap up. Mainly I have been uploading all the information in WordPress. I thought I would have to learn more digital stuff, but since my project is a map, it´s mainly enteringContinue reading “Hispanic women writers in Iowa: a digital map (part II)”
Historically Inspired Digital Font Design
This summer I have worked on a typeface based on lettering from the Lindisfarne Gospels, a manuscript book created at a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, England, in the eighth century. The manuscript includes calligraphic insular uncial, but heavily illuminated pages feature drawn capitals that are a hybrid ofContinue reading “Historically Inspired Digital Font Design”
On visualization
I have spent the past few weeks selecting audio samples in Audition, exporting data and thinking about visualization. Hannah and I worked together to export raw data from Audition. This information shows up as – Frequency, Left, Right, Average. After we did that, we created a .CSV file. With Rob’s help, we mapped the dataContinue reading “On visualization”
WOAH – Data Prep for Network Analysis of Research Topics
Some thoughts on methods and tools. Here is the process that I have used to analyze the WOAH database as a network. Let’s start with a sample entry: http://woah.lib.uiowa.edu/explore/ I point to the 5th field, “Women in the…” and begin the data collection and conversion process there. Entries for this field vary inContinue reading “WOAH – Data Prep for Network Analysis of Research Topics”
Magazine Ecology – Networks of Nineteenth Century Environmental Periodicals
My project is focused on exploring the development of environmental writing in American magazines during the nineteenth century. Many of the authors that we today think of as seminal environmental writers — authors such as John Muir, Sarah Orne Jewett, and John Burroughs — made a name for themselves by writing for magazines such as Scribner’sContinue reading “Magazine Ecology – Networks of Nineteenth Century Environmental Periodicals”