Category: CHI Fellowship Program
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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…
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Working out NorrisTown!
In the last month, I have begun putting the innards of my website together. Unsurprisingly it was difficult. But I am happy to report some progress! At this point, I am working towards making a page that whose format I would like to replicate in the other pages. In other happy news, I was able…
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An organized chaos of Ngrams, corpora, and theory
At this point in my project exploring Norwegian national identity in literature over time, there is not much to report other than my continued progress knee-deep into the different pieces of my project. Over the past several weeks, I have been delving into different visualization tools to illustrate trends in national identity in Norway over…
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Timeglider JS: moving right along
Construction of my timeline project is moving right along. I have almost completely entered in all of the basic events, and have formatted the website into what it will basically look like. It is really coming together! I am using Timeglider JS as the framework for the timeline portion of my project and coding the…
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Slowly Building My Website
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 going on. Still pondering a name for the website. It’ll likely come to me…
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Responsive Rhetoric
This week has been a hard one and the year has had a rocky start for me: I have been sick, and I am concerned about the recent news that overlaps with my community and research. President Trump is making way for Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Opposition to these two pipelines…
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Making maps talk…
When I look at a map, I want to know how it relates to the reality of the terrain. One of the things I learned during my Master’s in Urban Design was to use AutoCAD. I enjoyed being able to created detailed figure-grounds, especially tracing over archival maps. The challenge however was, how would I…
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How to Build the Directory of Oneota Scholars
In the past few weeks I have struggled to decide how I will build my database into my github pages site, without learning how to code SQL (structured query language), which would be difficult given the amount of time I have to complete this project. I was struggling with using Airtable as a front end…
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Circumnavigating the choppy waters of evidence gathering in Norwegian national literature
Recently, as I’ve begun to build my project and begin the first explorations of constructing the corpus of textual evidence through which I will examine national identity in Norway, I’ve been vexed with an epistemological challenge of using such evidence in my corpus that includes examples of literature, folklore, folk songs, and the like. Can…
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Phase I: Developing my Timeline
Now that the new semester is here, I have finally begin to build my archaeological timeline of Michigan. While not much has changed on the project website, I have been working steadily on collecting the necessary data to include. You are welcome to view/keep tabs on my project development by going to my project development…