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Visualizations
When I started working through this week’s readings and activities, the last thing I anticipated was gaining a neww appreciation for bar charts. I’ve always been frustrated with all of the options in trying to represent data, and when working with programs such as Excel I’ve always been under the impression that the more flashy…
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Mapping
The following screen shots are from a map that I created with StoryMaps JS as part of my ENG 818 course in Spring 2020, and it was the last project I started before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns hit. In fact, I was in East Lansing’s Espresso Royale with Dr. Scott Michaelsen on March 11 discussing…
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Text Analysis II
This week’s approach to text analysis felt more complex than last week’s. I was familiar with Voyant and Tableau, although the dive into topic modeling was a bit deeper than what I’d encountered before. My only experience using Python was at an SSDA Intro to Python workshop last year, and it was very (as would…