The project I chose is “Mappng Jewish LA“. The project aims to inspire new research, teaching, and community engagement by facilitating access to archives through multimodal digital exhibitions curated by leading scholars. UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies created this project, and scholars and students can upload their articles and visualizations if it […]
Month: March 2023
Learning basic mapping
I enjoyed working on Tableau Public last time, so I also decided to learn how to use its mapping feature. My boss also told me that Tableau is the best visualization tool he has worked with, so I decided it would be the most useful to learn. First, I needed to manipulate the data to […]
Conference Suggestions
The meeting reminded me that I should have an overarching idea to help the essay flow better instead of splitting the essay into two different topics. The first step I will take is to find an article that defines autodidactic learning, its various benefits, and how it has evolved over the years. I was also recommended […]
Analyzing a Text Analysis Project
I analyzed the text analysis project titled “Mining the dispatch“. It was created Robert K. Nelson, the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. He also had a lab staff of five people. I looked up the Digital Scholarship Lab website to further research the individuals. I found information on two […]
Data Visualization
https://public.tableau.com/views/bargraph_16780670078320/Sheet1?:language=en-US&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link I enjoyed learning how to craft these visualizations, especially the one on Tableau public. I found the excel ones more straightforward due to my prior experience with excel. However, Tableau public was challenging at first. I did not understand how to import data or make graphs, so Iooked it up […]
The importance of affordances
Functional affordances pertain to “what the site can actually do”. One primary affordance that the website offers is the ability to look up the availability and locations of books and articles through the library catalog. Students can gain access to the library’s extensive collection of databases when doing research and have access to services such […]