A blog about historical research and digital tools.
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Tableau: Inquiring Far and Beyond with Data Visualization
To experiment with Tableau, an interactive data visualization application, I acquired data in XLSX format from the National Register of
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Palladio: Everything is Connected
As surprising as it sounds, for a long time historians overlooked implicit connections between things, people, organizations, and ideas across
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Voyant and Text Mining: When Quantitative Meets Qualitative
When Dr. Leisl Carr Childers introduced me to Voyant during her graduate methods seminar at Colorado State University, I realized
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StoryMaps: A place-based form of historical narrative
Professor Elizabeth Tulanowski‘s introductory class on Geographic Information Systems at Colorado State University exposed me to ArcGIS tools. Developed by
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AirTable: Data Management and Collaboration
Dr. Amanda Regan, my supervisor and co-director of the digital mapping project Mapping the Gay Guides, first introduced me to AirTable when
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Omeka: Curatorship and exhibits in the digital age
The great thing about Omeka is that it is an open-source system. The software is what we call a content
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Organize your mess: Tropy and historical research
In the summer of 2021, I did my first solo research trip. With little time to prepare, I had one
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The day has finally come: Zotero has found me and it’s here to stay
I never really loved dishwashers. One of the few things that gives me some sense of control over the chaos
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Coding: Baby steps towards a new form of communication
Of course, the first blog post of the Time Sensitive is about coding. Not because I love it madly, but
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