Unfortunately I was unable to attend class during week 14 because I had to go down to Stafford to take care of my grandmother who was having some health issues at the time. However I believe my project is on course and will be ready to go by monday the 12th! Me and one of […]
This week class began by us working on our Omeka’s in greater detail than before to finish the project. It’s still a long ways from complete but I must admit I’m a little worried that I may not be cut out to make a high quality site accurately detailing John Knapp’s life. However, we shall […]
Text mining: reads a massive amount of material, machines are really powerful and efficient but not that smart when it comes down to it. It doesn’t comprehend meaning. We saw some interesting graphs when the lecture transitioned into google books Ngram Viewer. Ngram was very interesting once I took a swing at it for myself. […]
We started class by going into great detail on a map of Harlem from the early 1920’s the documented arrests, housing trends in African Americans, and even 3 years of the life of a young man by using probation officers records. I found the railroad map of Nebraska over the course of 20 years from […]
We spent a lot of time during class working on various data tables. The focus of this blog however is our weekend assignment of using DAYTUM to see what was going on in our day to day lives statistically. Also I need to use Gould to make another data sheet for my soldier. Finally Finished […]
I did much more poor on the exam than expected, matter of fact it was my worst exam grade in my entire 3 years of college. Hopefully I can pull it off and finish the class strong however. We’re planning to go to Blenheim house next Tuesday hopefully, I’ll post about my experiences next week. […]
The midterm went smoothly in my opinion. The blog assignment for today was to write about what your soldier was doing after the war and John Knapp was living in Philadelphia PA for the majority of the time. The majority of his time was spent as an Iron worker after the war. Unfortunately this was […]
I finished setting up my zotero and adding professor Robertson to the list of users who can see it. During class we visited the waybackmachine which we used to see what the mason site looked like back a bunch of years ago. After this we transitioned into talking about personal archiving. We spent a little […]
Today’s class, started out by listening to a presentation from a Blenheim representative. She gave us a lot of interesting facts about the history of the Blenheim farm. I found this presentation very interesting as she went into detail about the home, attic, and some of the soldiers graffiti and drawings in particular. Following this […]
We opened up the class with a brief discussion on copyright’s which quickly transitioned into the ‘Why?’ slide/lecture. We discussed why we need to know our primary sources and be copy right compliant. Historical sources are fragmentary, the research is about collecting and combining sources to fill in the gaps starting with what are soldiers […]