Self Reflection

I’ve learned a lot this semester during the Digital History class, but I have to say there are three lessons that really stuck out as highly impactful. The first was reading silencing the Past by Dr. Michel-Rolph Trouillot. This book was incredible and has completely changed my perspective about understanding the power of recording or… Continue reading Self Reflection

Blog Post #5

When it came to creating my own tidy data that took information from the American Philosophical Society’s “Curator’s Record of Donations to the Cabinet, 1769-1818 Volume 1: 3 February 1769-20 1818” I took great care to review Hadley Wickham’s article, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software 59, no. 10 (August 2014), especially the three principals… Continue reading Blog Post #5

Blog Post #3

The three principles of tidy data, as defined by Hadley Wickman in his article from August 2014 from the Journal of Statistical software are that “each variable forms a column, each observation forms a row, and each type of observational unit forms a table.”  This outline of how to organize data creates a standard for… Continue reading Blog Post #3

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