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Portfolio: Loughran Portfolios

13: Final Project!

Here are some revisions I made to my project based on the comments and suggestions I received during the class conference: Shawn raised a great point about cultural and material transformations going hand in hand. After reading his comment, I included a small paragraph in my section titled, “The Goods” discussing how the influx of […]

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Portfolio: Loughran Portfolios

12: Work

This week I worked on interactivity. I created a dashboard combining my bar charts, added filters, and wrote annotations on the rest of my charts. The previous bar charts I posted using the Wendell dataset were misleading because I implied that “Trading by Month” included all trading that occurred between Wendell and his business partners, […]

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Portfolio: Loughran Portfolios

11: Work

This week, I encountered difficulties with my “Highest Earners of Each Nation” chart. I was struggling to figure out how I wanted to visualize the pence field, but I knew I still wanted to focus on how Fonda paid each trader and how any discrepancies could possibly reflect a power dynamic between traders of different nations, […]

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Portfolio: Loughran Portfolios

10: Work

These are the six visualizations I am working on for this project. There is still much to work on in terms of making them prettier. I plan on playing with the color schemes a bit more as well as the titles. I also need to clean up some of the alias for some of the […]

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Portfolio: Loughran Portfolios

9: Work

I am using datasets provided by Prof. Kane that list economic transactions between Dutch fur traders and their indigenous trading partners that conducted business in Albany, NY. Most of these exchanges involve furs of various mammals, including bears, martens, muskrats, and most notably, beaver. These datasets represent primary documents written by Jelles Fonda, Evert Wendell, […]

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Module 8 Assignment Maps

8: Maps!

I chose to complete 1A: Georectification for ArcGIS. I chose the StoryMap publishing method. The example StoryMap I was most inspired by was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade one, so I tried to mimic the design as best I could. I really like the slideshow-like layout here, especially the side-car format. The transition is so smooth […]

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Portfolio: Loughran Portfolios Project Proposal

6: Final Project Proposal

I will use three datasets that Prof. Kane assembled for the Module 2: Data Critique assignment. These are the two Jelles Fonda datasets and the Dutch Account books from the Indigenous Economic Data category. I explored the Unidentified Dutch Account book, but I want to look at Fonda’s account books as well and see if […]

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Module 5 Assignment Tableau

5: Using Data

In my histogram, I visualized the distribution of ages for each birthplace group. I then highlighted two ages that stuck out to me, 26 and 39. Almost all my birthplace groups have one of these ages as their highest or their second highest age bin. Since these birthplace groups signify all Albany residents who were […]

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Module 4 Assignment Getting Data

Getting Data in Module 4

For this week, the concept I struggled with the most was the language. I frequently got stuck due to so many stupid, easy typos. I wrote (‘items’) rather than [‘items’] in the API Requests assignment, I was trying to run a function with text.strip rather than text.strip() in the Webscraping assignment, and I had placelist.txt […]

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Module 3 Assignment Thinking With Data

My Take on Module 3

I enjoyed Observable more than Colab. I found JavaScript a little easier because it seemed like there were less parentheses than Python, which is something I really struggled with when learning R. The difficulty I ran into with Observable was first figuring out the difference between numbers and strings, as I was really thrown off […]