Were Students More Likely to Run Away from the Carlisle Indian School if Their Tribe was in the Same Region as the School? Background on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Served as the model for off-reservation boarding schools across the U.S. and Canada Operating from 1879-1918, CIS enrolled over 10,000 students from across the United […]
Aimee Ciarimboli, Ashlyn McGrath AHIS 596 DH Final Project: Her Hat Was In the Ring: US Women Who Ran For Office Before 1920, http://www.herhatwasinthering.org/index.php The twentieth century saw major developments in every area of life throughout many different areas of the world. For American women, the early twentieth century provided opportunities for advancement regarding labor, […]
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 […]
The data I worked with come from a 2014 study titled, “An Institutionalization Effect: The Impact of Mental Hospitalization and Imprisonment on Homicide in the United States, 1934 – 2001.” The research was led by Dr. Bernard Harcourt, a political scientist and human rights lawyer who is a teaches at Columbia University’s Law school. The […]
Net Worth Transaction Averages Average Amount of Creditors & Debtors per Insolvent Debtor Full Network Colored by Type Insolvent Debtor: Red Creditor: Blue Debtor: Green Orange: Both (Creditor & Debtor ) Full Network Colored by gender Male: Blue Female: Orange Filtered Network Filtered to show only people connected to 2 or more other nodes Colored […]
It goes by many names. Grassman, Momo, the Beast of Whitehall, the Boggy Creek Monster, Skunk Ape, Wood Ape, and Sasquatch, just to name a few. Yet, none of these names are as recognizable, and few are worthy of more derision, than Bigfoot. While it may seem… shall we say… far-fetched, that a seven foot […]
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 […]
In terms of roadblocks I’ve faced in forming this project, most have to do with data cleaning. More specifically, my dataset was compiled using a codebook, so dates and the like did not conform to workable standards for Tableau. For this reason, I had to break apart columns using field length factors, standardize the various […]
Visualizations In these first three visualizations, grouped together n the final project, my ambition is to explore geographic and temporal trends in Union Army enlistment for African Americans. The first, “Enlistments per Year” is a line graph which simply endeavors to demonstrate how total enlistments trackked through the course of the conflict. The second, “Birthplace […]
For this project, I’ll be using the dataset compiled by Jacob Metzer and Robert A. Margo entitled “Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865.” This dataset records important information about these recruits, including their birthplace, place of enlistment, year of enlistment, regiment and company, rank, etc. It also delineates their pre-war […]