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
Tag: datasets
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