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Quest for Chocolate
You never really realize how biased your own Google search is on your laptop until you’ve taken a step out of your bubble to compare the results. Everything you do on the internet is watched and recorded. Not only do the cookies you accumulate go towards this cloud of “you info”, but the permissions you…
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Text Analysis: Underwood, Brett, and Posner
Brett and Underwood make many of the same distinctions in their discussions of text analysis or text mining. Both emphasize that the tools of text mining are usually applied to very large collections of works and data. Both also stress that there is inevitably going to be some level of human intervention. In other words,…
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Demography Meets the Digital Humanities
Abstract “A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century Demography” brings the tools of the digital humanities to the history of demography, or population science, in the twentieth century. The project provides an overview of population science in the twentieth century, identifying the broad outlines and thematic trends of the field. “A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century…
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Boston Marathon Bombing Project
The Boston Marathon bombing refers to three explosions that happened in Boston on 15th of April 2013, at 2:50 PM. These bombings occurred on Boylston Street. After the bombing, North Eastern University lunched a subdomain link for the event. The website explores a lot of documents and comments about the bombing from people around the…
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Codecademy Evaluation
We use programs run by code every day, but so few of us actually know how to code ourselves. Codecademy, an online learning website, aims to teach the world how to code. Their site is home to free, learn by doing coding lessons on HTML, CSS, Java, Ruby, SQL, Sass,…
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Updating Wikipedia of a distinguished professor
I am CS major and I’m tracking my favorite CS professor publication. I updated Prof. Tom Conmen’s Wikipedia and added his new publication “Unlocked Algorithms”. I needed to add citation about the book and also some brief about the book. Therefore, I needed to know more about the book and syllabus. It gave me an overview of…
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Experience Editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia has been an invaluable resource because it embodies so many of the best elements of the web. It takes advantage of the internets near zero marginal cost nature to become available to every single individual in the world for free. That is amazing! It has figured out effective community…
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The Highs and Lows of Collaboration: Wikipedia
This practicum on editing and citing on Wikipedia made me realize just how easy it is to change the information presented. Growing up, every teacher from the fourth grade on warns about the potential misinformation one could receive on Wikipedia, but the information available usually appears to be fairly reliable. I think that…
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia! Growing up, in school you knew when writing a paper or report, Wikipedia could not be cited as a credible source. But I never really looked into what Wikipedia was all about until I read their Five Pillars. The main points are: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of…
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Editing Wikipedia’s Pages on YouTube
The citation I added to Wikipedia required finding the source of a quote from Margaret Thatcher’s 1995 memoirs on her opinion of Clement Attlee. Figuring out the title of Thatcher’s 1995 memoir was not difficult, but it took a bit more time to find the page number on which the quote appeared. I used the…