dh2017 Recap

21 August 2017

This month, Sarah Calhoun and I attended dh2017 in Montreal to present a prototype augmented reality app co-developed with Andrew Wilson and Adam Kral. Our poster and additional resources are…

Sarah and Celeste give thumbs up next to their poster for dh2017

Student Post: Adam Kral on AR and VR Development

21 August 2017

Guest post by Adam Kral (’20) on his summer work for Academic Technology. So far over the summer I have been working on two projects: an augmented reality app to…

Sign up for a Moodle Bootcamp!

13 June 2017

We are offering 2 5-day long Moodle workshops this August! Each workshop runs 12:30-3:30p, and box lunches and snacks will be provided. August 14-18: Efficiency: essentially how to make the…

Storify: 2nd Annual Day of DH at Carleton College

6 June 2017

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Demystifying project communications for students (part 2)

5 June 2017

**crossposted from Celeste’s blog** This post expands on my previous post about some of the basics of project communications, with the idea that these can be helpful references for students…

kermit the frog looks at screen of Mac laptop

Every Presidential Ad Ran in 2008

30 May 2017

Barbara Allen, a political science prof, approached the DataSquad for help redesigning graphs in her book for better clarity and to meet publisher standards. I was given a word document…

Converting Microsoft Office files to PDF files

28 May 2017

My project was to convert old Microsoft Office documents .doc/.xls/.ppt files to PDF format in order to better preserve the data. MS Word is one of the most popular word…

Managing Students

23 May 2017

I was brought onto the Datasquad to help Paula manage her wide variety projects and be an amateur ‘Project Manager’. While excited to learn about project managing, I was surprised…

Using FileMaker to Design a User Interface for an Inventory Database

16 May 2017

My current project is to design a web and desktop user interface for a physics inventory database using FileMaker. The database is shared between Carleton and St. Olaf College and…