Archive for the 'Theory and Practice' Category

Online Security In terms of how safe I am online, I would love to assume that I am doing everything in my power to keep hackers out. Frankly, this is not the case. I do not use any anti viral software on my computer nor have I looked into purchasing any. Luckily, I have never […]

ICharts

April 22, 2014 | Leave a Comment

ICharts: Neither a success or a failure. So basically, since I am not dealing with figures for my research, a chart would be considered relatively useless. I have tried IChart numerous times and I still have to to figure out how it works. I can load the data but creating the actual chart is a […]

Text Mining Text mining is the delivering of high quality information through the use of data, in this particular case the data would be text. We explored how to use various text mining resources such as Wordle and Google Ngram. Although these show interesting relationships between text and word choice, for my particular project text […]

Copyright?

March 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment

Is it infringement? In my opinion, no. Located in the header of the pages of the syllabus, uncited Calvin and Hobbes cartoons are found in the syllabus. Although they are not cited, it can be fair to assume that they are being used to illustrate ideas of the syllabus and are not being claimed as […]

Digitized Primary Sources

February 10, 2014 | 1 Comment

Both sources chosen are primary sources which are portrayed through the digital means of a website. One depicts a collection of maps of D.C (source 1) and the other depicts a chronicling of America with a focus of D.C (source 2). Source 1: The maps depict a variety of information from a general map with […]

Website Reviews

February 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment

Website Review Websites chosen to be reviewed include 100 Years of Parcels, Packages, and Packets Oh My! and 17th Century New England.                 100 Years of Parcels, Packages, and Packets Oh My!  The purpose of the website is to examine 100 years worth of the history of the […]

I am  a freshman at George Mason University. Currently I am studying Visual Art and Technology with a concentration in drawing so in simple terms I’m a drawing major. I do not plan on staying at Mason for too long however. I am looking into transferring schools to Virginia Commonwealth University to be hopefully accepted […]