Tag: Visualization
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Mack Diary Database Creation and Data based analysis
Intro: Our group is provided with Mack Diary as our resource. We decide to analysis the Diary and compare it with Powell Diary. We made this decision because those two diary wrote stories about the same group of people and both of the authors lived in Shamokin. But they were wrote in different time.…
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Changes in Moravians’ Life and Their Implications
In our lightning talk, Jerry presented our new systematic project design. Different from the traditional project design, which starts from a question and is followed by data collection and data analysis, our own design begins with data collection. At first, we marked up the person’s names and place’s names in the Shamokin Diaries written by…
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Understanding History Through GIS
Over the last two weeks, we did close reading on Powell Diary, built our GIS Data Dictionary, created our own story maps and finally published the maps through a web mapping application. In my story maps, I focused primarily on the connections between Shamokin and Native Americans. Through maps and spatial thinking, I tried to find the answers…
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Geographic Visualization Map and It’s Relevance
This GIS, Geospatial Information System, is used to be able to describe the Moravian missions made by Powell and his friends during the year 1748. The GIS has already been used for similar ideas, shown in Bodenhammer’s article, The Spacial Humanities, “archeologists have used GIS and computer animations to reconstruct the Roman Forum, for example, creating a…