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Over the course of this semester, Hist390 has taught me many interesting things to take with me in my academic career and further. Like the importance of not only being online, but to be in control of the narrative if possible. To ensure a more complete and accurate story is told vs a potentially skewed…

Historian and scholars alike can represent their primary sources into data in many different ways. Based on my accrued knowledge I would focus you to represent and chose to go a more direct and linear approach to your data representation. As opposed to sticking to an almost entirely numerical data set.  For example a university…

 When we look at the highway marker for “ Freedman’s Bureau and Freeman’s Bank” in Richmond, Virginia, we can see over the course of history African Americans have been denied many things. The goal was to address the denial of education and other skills required to exercise the freedom won by the civil war. The agencies…

Now when we begin to venture into the topic of the research and methods involved in gathering your data. Its important to briefly go over the three principles of tidy data. An also best methods for organizing research. An how you might implement both tidy data and organizational research methods into your own scholarly works….

There are many questions that you ask yourself before embarking on your Digital Humanities Project. For example, when you create your website inadvertently enter a unique relationship with your site users. Where you are not only a producer of content, but also the consumer as well. So you are going to undertake a balancing act…

After going over the articles, I found that after google ones self. It is highlighted, the importance of controlling your story. What I mean by that, after google yourself. Is that your complete story or is that just minor tidbit and a glimpse captured in a brief moment in times. But after going thru the…