Tag: Lab report

For this lab assignment, I used Tableau to clean some data referenced in my Finding Data post and to create graphs from these data. I visualized two data sets: Median Household Incomes (1979–1989) of Alabama Counties and Individual Contributions to …

For this exercise in my Digital Humanities class, we practiced creating and organizing data taken from the 1885 Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (PDF). While we each focused on only a small sample of the data contained in the yearbook, we thought …

For this post I am assessing the data concerning Alabamian contributions to the 1984 Reagan campaign as provided by the Federal Electoral Commission. I downloaded the csv file provided by the Commission and uploaded the dataset to Tableau to assist …

For my final project in my Digital Humanities class, I am interested in investigating the relationships between church membership numbers (1980, 1990) and presidential election results (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992) in Alabama at the county level. Depending on the evident …

Hadley Wickham’s “tidy data” approach makes it easier for data to be manipulated in spreadsheets. The three criteria for tidy data are as follows: There is one variable per column. Each observation gets a row. Each observation type gets a …

The Joseph Smith Papers Project is a digital archive project that has made available online all known documents authored by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This project is a valuable resource for …