Author: watrall
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Snags and setbacks won’t slow me down
News flash: sometimes your project doesn’t go the way you expect it to!
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Directory of Oneota Scholars: Tracking Them Down
My last blog post addressed the criteria of inclusion I am using for the Directory of Oneota Scholars. As I was collecting names of scholars, I had to eventually stop and begin working through this corpus to gather information on their current research interests, position, the institution (or entity they are at), and a website…
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The Rhetoric of Code
When working to persuade an audience, one assumes to mostly wrestle with whatever’s rendered on the other side of the code. The archaic mess of symbols tucked under the rug of GitHub files is kept cleanly from view—or especially interest—from the community I work with, because the rhetoric of the rendered site seems to be…
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SQL
I have not updated the blog about my project in a while. Its scope has been pared down significantly – as Ethan has said from the start that it would. The main change is that in order to make the creation of a database manageable within the time parameters of the program, given my total…
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Archivaton
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045 I attended the event described in the article above. The general purpose of this series of events is to preserve scientific environmental knowledge that is supported by the US federal government and is therefore at risk of loss under the Trump administration. The last sentence of the article best captures the specific purpose…
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Making headway…finally
The past few months have been incredibly frustrating as I made little headway in creating my clickable SVG of a juvenile skeleton using Raphaël.js. By clicking on a certain bone, the user would be taken to another page corresponding to age estimation methods for that bone and use the features specified to come up with…
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Project Update!
Greetings all! I don’t have many exciting new developments to report on my CHI project, so instead I thought I would share with you some screen shots of where I am at right now, and some of the pieces I could use help on. The first is coming up with a flashier banner to go…
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Capturing Campus Cuisine: The Interactive Atlas
Over the past several weeks I have made significant progress on the final detail of the Capturing Campus Cuisine website: the interactive atlas! Originally, I was planning this interactive user feature to be a timeline map, that would allow visitors to move through the Early Period on campus (from 1855-1870) exploring different locations on campus…
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Getting Back to the Basics: Reducing the Content of My Site
My original vision for this project was to make a website showcasing the work I have been doing in collaboration with my colleagues in the Sociolinguistics Lab at MSU. We’ve been documenting speech in the Greater Lansing Area over the last few years and have come across some unexpected trends…speech in Lansing is moving away…
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Slowly
I wrote this in January and never published it, so here goes anotha try I’ve done away with Bootstrap and am giving it a go with HTML and CSS. Everything is coming along… slowly but surely. I wish I could globally change my sub-pages, but am not savvy enough to know how. Lots of copy/paste…