ArcGIS Training Review
Similar to peer review of essays, it was hard to get started in this process and it was hard to decide on how much I wanted to change. Simply making small edits is very different from restructuring the flow and organization of the training. Originally, I just made a document and wrote down a few […]
GitHub & Jekyll
During February, I worked through a tutorial on how to set up a static website using Jekyll through GitHub. This tutorial was on the Programming Historian website, written by Amanda Visconti. This tutorial led me through how to use GitHub to manage and create files that made up the static site I was creating. It […]
Accessibility
After watching the keyboard compatibility, speech recognition, and text customization videos I found the slogan (“Essential for some, useful for all” ) at the end of all of them to be very compelling. When I think of accessibility, I think of chronic disabilities as opposed to temporary ones or people who simply prefer the more […]
Semester Reflection
I met most of my goals this semester. The site is set up and next semester will be spent on organizing stuff and making it more visually appealing. I often got caught up in how big the tasks felt that I just wouldn’t start them because I was scared to mess up. Then when I […]
Tableau/R Reflection
I started with Tableau (students get a free membership for 1 year!) and worked through some data visualizations with the Grinnell 1800 census data. I followed along with a LinkedIn Learning video tutorial I’d found which was nice and basic to start out with. It was a bit difficult to stay engaged because tutorial involved […]
Reflection 10/28-11/3
These types of exercises always end up being harder and more time consuming than I originally think. There’s an endless amount of detail you could go into about almost any sort of task, so it’s hard to determine at what point you simplify or don’t explain certain things. Sometimes the over-complication of steps makes things […]
Reflection 10/14-10/18
Things I have accomplished for my project: Lots of meetings with Gina about general layout and aesthetics of the website Read 7 chapters of the book that range in topics from sex education for disabled people to challenges of breastfeeding Played around with color palettes to ensure they’re not strictly feminine (reproductive health is for […]
Reflection 10/7-10/13
This week, I looked at Excel again and the possibilities of working with data within it. I wanted to focus on the algebraic formula functions and what kinds of information these could lead to. I made a dummy dataset with two columns for “expenses” and “budgets” populated with random numbers. I created a third column […]
Reflection 9/30-10/6
This week I looked at ArcGIS again because I want to use it in one of my projects for my sociology seminar. I plan on mapping different public transportation systems across the US and figuring out the best ways to improve the current infrastructure. I mapped Minneapolis and Washington DC’s systems onto my map and […]
Reflection 9/23-9/29
I played around with ArcGIS again this shift and decided to do something I wanted to try during class on Thursday. In class, I mapped children alive to the job of the male head of household but I wanted to see the relationship between the children born and the children alive categories. So, I figured […]