I was really struck by how the article came back to the idea of always having to go back and read the sources, even if you make visualizations/use digital tools. Digital tools in the humanities is just a different tool in our arsenal, it shouldn’t replace traditional methods. I was also intrigued by their challenge regarding digital tools: should radically… Read more →
Month: March 2022
Brain Teasers and Time Savers: The Benefits of Learning a Little Bit of Code
The only other time I’d experienced coding was in a select few QGIS tutorials. The code included in one tutorial was something I actually saved in a document for future use. It would automatically set the colour of polygon border lines to 30% darker than the fill colour. This was a nifty little string of code that I could copy… Read more →
I Was Tricked Into Using Numbers in History (And I’m Happy About It)
In my experience with quantitative data, I found it most useful as a way to observe broad trends across a large group of people, specifically how many Irish and English women immigrated to Ontario between 1860-1886. My project from last term aimed to map these women’s final destinations within Ontario and answer the question, “Why did they chose to emigrate?”… Read more →