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Newbie Navigations of Data Visualization

4 November 2024

We rely on many forms of data visualization in our daily lives, often without even realizing it. From weather maps to public transportation guides – they play a critical role in visually communicating data, including these graphs on the long term impacts of late-career job loss.

Circle graph with yellow, pink and aqua-blue sections.

Transferring your Stuff Efficiently and Effectively: Is Rclone the Right Tool?

2 October 2024

Students accumulate all kinds of files on their Google Drives over the time they’re in school. How can graduating seniors efficiently and effectively transfer their data to another account, saving their valuable research, essays, or projects?

Rclone logo.

Election News Analysis project

3 June 2024

The goal of the Election News Analysis project is to accumulate transcripts from various news sources, and then analyze trends and patterns of the topics discussed during presidential election periods and key events.

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DataSquad Student Positions Open

12 April 2024

DataSquad is a group of student workers in ITS that works on various different data-related projects. These include data gathering, cleaning, management, and visualization projects.

Carleton DataSquad logo.

DataSquad: A Deep Dive Into Data Cleaning

18 May 2023

Shaun Baron-Furayama (class of 2023) worked over a summer to “clean” student-collected presidential election data that spanned over two decades. Here’s a little about the process and a report of his experience.

Cartoon image of files and a sweeper, indicating the process of data cleaning.

Using Python with the Google Analytics API

27 April 2023

Google Analytics is an application that helps you analyze web data. I adopted a Python script to download 100,000+ website records from Google API.

The Python logo and the Google Analytics logo together in the same image. Both logos are separate from each other.

Jimmy Zhong: how the DataSquad experience helped me during my internship

6 January 2023

Aya Klos ‘23 sat down with Biology/Computer Science double-major Jimmy Zhong ’23 to learn about his experience with the DataSquad and reflect on the skills he could apply during his internship and beyond.

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Maraki Ketema: career experience and advice for data science/software engineering beginners

14 May 2021

Maraki is currently a senior product manager at Tableau. Tableau is a data visualization software company under Salesforce®. After Carleton, she started as a software engineer at Tableau, and currently,…

Photo of Maraki Ketema, Carleton class of 2015

Online Education v.s. College Online Class

28 December 2020

Introduction & Motivation It’s almost Christmas 2020. Covid-19 has been around for more than 9 month. Like the number of Covid cases, my average screen time has been steadily increasing…