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Voyant, kepler, and palladio

admin Oct 31, 2021 4 min read

For the past few weeks I had the opportunity to explore the WPA slave narratives with the use of Voyant, Kepler, and Palladio digital tools. Each tool provided new insights on using the slave narrative data set, and as I…

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Working with palladio

admin Oct 28, 2021 3 min read

Palladio is a network visualization tool created at Stanford University. It allows users to to see connections in large data sets that would otherwise be difficult to discern by just reading the data the old fashioned way. In using Palladio…

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Mapping with kepler.gl

admin Oct 20, 2021 3 min read

Learning about mapping data was a most enlightening experience, and one I was looking forward to the most. I do love a good map. I was therefore surprised by the fact that my initial conclusions, based solely on a point…

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Reflection on using voyant

admin Oct 14, 2021 2 min read

I used Voyant to learn basic text analysis utilizing the corpus of WPA slave narrative documents. I used the five default tools: cirrus, reader, trend, summary, and contexts. While at times I had problems getting certain elements to work (particularly…


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Folger Shakespeare Library luna collection

admin Sep 10, 2021 1 min read
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https://www.folger.edu/ https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6 All of the images in the Luna collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library, unless under a non-Folger copyright, are  available under Creative Commons…

Prelinger archives

admin Sep 10, 2021 1 min read
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https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/about/ The Prelinger Archives’ “mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.” To accomplish this mission, the archive contains billions of webpages, over…

The metropolitan museum of art

admin Sep 10, 2021 1 min read
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Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources While not all of the images in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are in the Public Domain, in 2017 the…

Agricultural research Service: US Dept of Agriculture image gallery

admin Sep 10, 2021 1 min read
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https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/image-gallery/ https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/copyright/ The Image Gallery of the US Department of Agriculture’s Research Service consists of images of all aspects of the agency’s work. Categories include…

NASA on the commons

admin Sep 9, 2021 1 min read
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/with/29214887956/ https://www.flickr.com/people/nasacommons/ With NASA on the Commons, NASA has made available hundreds of thousands of photographs, videos, and audio files to engage the public in…

J Paul getty museum

admin Sep 9, 2021 1 min read
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https://www.getty.edu/ https://www.getty.edu/about/whatwedo/opencontent.html The Getty Museum maintains a large collection, about 100,00, images available in the public domain, including ” paintings, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, antiquities, sculpture, decorative…