This week we talked about text mining, topic modeling and network analysis and how we might look to incorporate these ideas into our websites/projects. Additionally, the chapter that we read this week focused on catering to the community that will be observing your site and how to acquire the most ‘hits’. For our project specifically, […]
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Group thoughts on text mining, networking, etc.
Networking: Go in by battle and input each soldier’s state so that they could be easily categorized. Topic Modeling: In Voyant, we could make a word cloud based on the location of where the soldiers were from. Text mining: We could find out what soldiers were from which state, or which battles they fought in. […]
Evaluation of more digital projects
Famous Trials This website features transcripts, essays, maps and more related to some of the most famous trials in history. This site features lots of information that is laid out in an organized manner, making it easy for the audience to navigate. Because the trials are listed in chronological order, it makes it more straightforward […]
Group Review of Digital Projects
Great Molasses Flood. This website sucked. It was overwhelming, there was no background information. Everything that it clicked on overlapped with the previous information making it extremely difficult to read. These are all things that we specifically want to avoid in our website. A Red Record This site was very simple in its design, the […]
Digital History Project Review
When looking at how Omeka and Neatline were implemented, I explored both the History of the National Mall website as well as the article on the Great Molasses Flood. For the national mall site, I liked the simplicity of their URL. I feel like it is definitely easy to share via the internet as well […]
Why Digital History?
I chose to take this course for several reasons. Initially, it was because I needed to fulfill an upper level elective for my Communication and Digital Studies Major. However, I had taken a course with McClurken last spring and absolutely loved it. History has always been something that has been interesting to me and I […]