Returning to the topic of Reagan’s 1980 presidential win, this week I practiced creating additional graphs and connecting them into a “story” with Tableau. Stories allow viewers to see visualizations and other elements, such as textual explanations and images, in …
Tag: Lab report
Graphing Data for Alabama Counties
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 …
Creating Data from the 1885 Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook
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 …
Assessing Data for the 1984 Reagan-Bush Election
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 …
Finding Data: Church Membership and the Rise of Religious Conservatism
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 …
Tidy Data
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: An Accessibility Evaluation
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 …