For our final project we had to play around with a visualization tool, and for my choice I wanted to use Tableau and the Word Clouds.  I chose to go with Tableau the most because that’s what was going to be best with my end projects.  I chose to first start with their sample data and play around with that.  I chose to do that because it would help me get a sense of what I am doing with the website.  Using their information helped me get an idea of what information went best in the different options, and what...

Well the time has finally come, the project is finally coming to an end and things went pretty quickly.  I have now submitted the final project to my professor and I am waiting for the feedback to fix the website to make it better.  I have finally decided on a format that I believe fits best with the posts and pages that I am trying to use and show.  Along with the format I have also decided on and found graphs that I think best represents my information.  I chose the graphs that I did because it gives the people...

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Website used: Citizen Archivist on the Nation Archive Website, give it a try! For my crowd-sourcing project I chose to use the one that was offered by the national archives website.  The idea of crowd-sourcing I think is a pretty good idea.  This is a way to include people who are interested in doing these type things without them even having to leave their home.  That is the most important part is how easy it is for people to access the website and for them to help out with something that would normally take much longer because there would be...

My project over the last couple days because of my other classes and my brother’s wedding, but other than that it is coming together very nicely.  Over the last couple weeks I have been trying different formats for the website and for the pages that I am using.  I am trying to figure out which formats look better for the visualizations for my project because my project is going to be mostly graphs and words.  As of right now I am happy with the format that I have and it tends to have a lot of options for colors and...

As I move farther into the project the problem I still continue to face is the graph or visual aid that I am going to use to demonstrate the information I collected.  The problem is I have found a few of them but they do not seem to be ones that I like or think would be visually appealing to someone visiting my website.  While I want a graph that is going to accurately show my information, but at the same time I want it to draw the attention of the viewer.  I also want to have it be somewhat...

I think for a historically accurate video game, I would choose something in the Civil War Era or even Revolutionary War Era because I feel like I haven’t seen enough video games based on this time.  I like the idea of the Assassin’s Creed where historical figures are added into the video game but it does not stick completely to history.  If I were designing a game I would go with that idea, but try to keep it more historically accurate.  I would like to not just base it on one battle but touch on other important events throughout the...

Over the last couple of weeks I have been starting to work on my project more and more.  For the most part now I have been trying to just get everything squared away and get my project planned out.  As I move on farther and farther in the project I am starting to see that one of the most time consuming things to do is to collect the actual data from the years I have chosen to look at.  There are a lot of names on each census and each one I have to look at the race of the...

Digit history is an approach to examining and representing the past that works with the new communication technologies of the computer, the internet network, and software systems.  To me digital history is the future of the history profession and if it is ignored, it is a waste of resources that can help the profession move into the future.  Many times I have made jokes about how the books that I have to buy for school are cheap because they have been around for so many years because of my major.  The idea of taking these sources or pictures of primary...