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Final Project

An Analysis of Women’s Employment in 1930 and 1931 Data Set: 1930/31 Time Diary from College Educated Women in the United States The Data Set The 1930/31 Time Diary from College Educated Women in the United States is the second phase of a research project on white, female homemakers conducted by the United States Department […]

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Portfolio: Willis

Module 11: Work and Module 12: Updates

One of the main challenges with this data set was that each woman had multiple entries in the data. Consequently, it would say there were 200 women working as librarians, but really it was only 7 with multiple entries. To get around this, I did a unique filter on the spreadsheet and created a filtered […]

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Module 10: Work

For my final project, I plan on using an essay structure and then embedding visualizations into it to support the conclusions/analysis of the data. For the overall argument, I plan on doing an analysis of employment for women during 1930 and 1931. This will focus on the North East and Northern Mid West because the […]

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Module 9: Work

For my final project, I plan on using the 1930/1931 Time Diary of College Educated Women. The data set is standardized so there is not much cleaning needed. I am not sure where the data could be extended, besides adding historical context, because it is very comprehensive. For my visualizations, I plan on using an […]

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Portfolio: Willis Portfolios Project Proposal

Module 6 and Final Project Data Set(s)

For the final project, I am deciding between two datasets. First, there is “Her Hat Was In the Ring: US Women Who Ran For Office Before 1920.” In undergrad, I took a class on Gender and the Presidency so I think it would be interesting to dive back into that research through data. The questions […]

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Module 5 Assignment Tableau

Module 5

Here is the link to my Tableau Public account in case the story does not allow you to click through the visuals. I focused the fist two visuals on Irish immigration and the third one gender and occupation. Visual 1: This pie chart shows the amount of people who indicated that they were born in […]

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Module 4 Assignment Getting Data

Module 4 Assignments

There was definitely a learning curve with Python on this week’s assignments. There were some parts that I retyped multiple times only to realize the mistake was farther up than I was looking. Like many of my classmates, I also had to slow down to double check what words meant and how functions operated. I […]

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Module 3 Assignment Thinking With Data

Module 3 Assignment

I had an easier time working through the Observable assignment than the Colab assignment. Python seemed to have a lot more variables to get lost in than Javascript and I had a hard time keeping track of where exactly I was supposed to be looking and editing. I also preferred Observable automatically implementing any changes, […]