I am going to use Her Hat Was In the Ring: US Women Who Ran For Office Before 1920, http://www.herhatwasinthering.org/index.php. I thought this would provide a number of options to explore the data- locations where there may be clusters of activity, certain years, political parties, movements, etc. After discussing with Prof. Kane, I am also looking […]
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I am currently deciding between three datasets for the final project. Two of these are from amongst the selection provided to us already. These are the “Haunted Places in America” dataset and the “Account of Losses Sustained by the Oneidas & Tuscaroras…” dataset. I am interested in exploring the Haunted Places in America data because […]
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 […]
Here is my data set: https://github.com/elisabethmtatum/1770sample My data is drawn from my transcriptions of Dutchess County, NY Ancient Documents from 1770-1775. The records I transcribed were from the filings of imprisoned insolvent debtors who sought relief under various NY colonial acts relating to insolvency passed between 1770 to 1775.When an insolvent debtor filed for relief, […]
At the beginning of the semester, I had planned to use a dataset I work with at my day job at the New York State AIDS Institute. My work focuses on analyses, visualization, and presentation of HIV/AIDS surveillance data — my unit produces all of the annual surveillance reports and any numbers, statistics, and graphs […]
I am interested in the datasets compiled in the “The Institutionalization Effect: The Impact of Mental Hospitalization and Imprisonment on Homicide in the US 1934-2001” After opening and looking through “The Institutionalization Effect” and the “Boys Town Study of Youth Development” datasets via OpenRefine and their code books, the data in “The Institutionalization Effect” seemed […]
For my final project, I’m considering two different datasets: Tim Renner, “Haunted Places in America.” https://data.world/timothyrenner/haunted-places*Probably restricting it to New York State/Northeast due to the amount of data Executions in New York State, extracted from https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/8451/datadocumentation# The hauntings dataset is very fun- everyone loves a good spooky experience. While looking through it, I was struck […]
Here are two different datasets I am interested in looking at for the final project that Professor Kane provided. I think for both of these datasets, I could work with Tableau or some other sort of data visualization project. Tim Renner, “Haunted Places in America.” https://data.world/timothyrenner/haunted-places [Download] National Register of Historic Places. (“Everything” spreadsheet) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/data-downloads.htm […]
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 […]