CUNY Academic Commons | Anderson Evans | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/andersonevans/activity/ Activity feed for Anderson Evans. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 726efdfdd75a547658bb2abf9d6f23d2 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/11/25/try-ruby/ Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:16:54 -0500 ThumbnailI want to go ahead and ask, right off the bat, that any scholar/researcher that has found this blog post: I’d like to invite you to join my alpha testers on my Gentle Introductions Resource: <a […]

]]> bc373b4622820ee1dd7458ad40a32e47 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/17/faust/ Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:38:20 -0400 ThumbnailSometimes when working on creating an elegant infrastructure for housing a Digital Humanities project, I’ve found it is easy to forget the importance of researching the actual content I am hoping to aggregate. […]

]]> f822d2cae1c2a2b02ac34cd7c43dc7e0 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/08/15/python-2-7-32s-coding-circus/ Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:37:02 -0400 Thumbnail*Warning this blog post is best described as a free writing exercise.  It started out as an attempt to describe issues of utilizing multiple versions of singular software, and quickly turned to ridiculous images […]

]]> 8b6d64c4ec73e37ac6ace7ad5a4721f7 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/08/12/final-projects/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:01:22 -0400 For my final two projects as a Masters candidate at the Graduate Center I am working on:

 

A) Thesis:

Because I am in the Digital Humanities concentration within the MALS degree program I have the […]

]]> 7f1ee9e2834254dc0dad1a4c38d0e617 Anderson Evans commented on the post, New toy: Raspberry Pi, on the site Emerging Tech in Libraries http://emerging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/05/new-toy-raspberry-pi/#comment-48 Thu, 16 May 2013 19:12:47 -0400 Please let me know when you figure out how to make this: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/11/raspberry-pi-powers-small-arcade-cabinet/

I gotta get one of these bad boys eventually myself!

]]> 54dcc67ce97603274860501131d3ebbb Anderson Evans commented on the post, Establishing a New Paradigm: the Call to Reform the Tenure and Promotion Standards for Digital Media Faculty, on the site The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/establishing-a-new-paradigm-the-call-to-reform-the-tenure-and-promotion-standards-for-digital-media-faculty/#comment-162 Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:29 -0400 James Richardson has done a great job here covering key issues that are now being discussed quite openly in classrooms dedicated to digital humanities and digital media. Currently the need for this very […]

]]> c35738f8311428e01d694b613b2905f2 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/05/12/exploring-gravitys-rainbow/ Mon, 13 May 2013 00:45:33 -0400 Thumbnail1. Initial Goal


My initial goal for this project was fairly straightforward – find a way to use our methods from class to gain a deeper understanding of Gravity’s rainbow – considered the pre-eminant […]

]]> 064df07b31a161ff96160cdbd04e35f6 Anderson Evans commented on the post, Voyant part 2, on the site DH Blog http://arianarod.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/05/06/voyant-part-2/#comment-5 Tue, 07 May 2013 16:50:54 -0400 Changing software is a headache no matter how comfortable you are with working with software. At the Omeka workshop at the GC a couple weeks back, the resident Omeka expert was very upset at how little the new […]

]]> 1adaad8ae097590f18cbb6f7b34ff46a Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/05/05/r-mapping-tests/ Mon, 06 May 2013 04:07:50 -0400 ThumbnailMoving forward with my project:

Right now I am still trying to get a proper map set up in R. I pushed away from QGIS, which I’ve messed with a little this semester after installing it on my linux laptop. I […]

]]> ba977297103e9b7fa5bc734634eaf924 Anderson Evans commented on the post, Rejecting Perfectionism/Failing Better, on the site Interactive Technology and the University: Core II http://core2spring2013.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/28/rejecting-perfectionismfailing-better/#comment-164 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:18:56 -0400 Here is a video that both reminds me of the Scott Berkun lecture I just sat through, and also highlights why failure might not be this awesome thing:

Peep Show Season 8 Episode 2: The Business Secrets of The […]

]]> 4b796f4ddf6a9107078d66d58e079f72 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/29/twitter-visualizations/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:04:54 -0400 Thumbnail

I’ve been enjoying my time in Lev Manovich’s Big Data class this semester, and I am currently working with using R to create some visualizations of twitter trends with a package called twitteR specifically for […]

]]> abc34e0e474112a38e55e057b02370a4 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/22/presentation-thoughts/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:06:43 -0400 ThumbnailFor my final presentation in DH Methods I am going to be using as many of the skills we’ve dabbled in this semester as I can. My hope is to run some streamlined, computational explorations on a .txt file holding […]

]]> 8f6eebaea94779f51da961a444bd4a53 Anderson Evans commented on the post, big data visualization , on the site Interactive Technology and the University: Core II http://core2spring2013.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/15/big-data-visualization/#comment-137 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:42:56 -0400 Thought I might add a link to my latest DH post on Visualization techniques I am currently engaging with in my classes with Prof Dwyer and Prof Manovich: […]

]]> 3774b006331fcdbe4ae5aebe2029dda5 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/15/visualization/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:13:33 -0400 ThumbnailI’m going to go a little out of bounds in my blog post as it relates to my DH Methods Class. We are concentrating on Visualization in our upcoming class, something I’ve been trudging through weekly for the class […]

]]> e183386173142c6b4c5a3901a8853027 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/08/idea/ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:28:38 -0400 Thumbnail

 

Rather than write specifically about software I’ve been testing, I’d like to take this opportunity to share where I am at with a personal DH project that I am working on.   I plan for this project to be […]

]]> 688c03d48e927933f469eaed7a44aca8 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/04/01/london/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:31:00 -0400 So, just before spring break I went to London (great timing, I know).  While I was there I took a lot of pictures and made a webpage with which to display them.  I used JavaScript and some basic HTML/CSS to build […]

]]> 8e7dd570aadc017449bd4b6538edfa5b Anderson Evans commented on the post, project management, aka, your hand is not your day planner , on the site Interactive Technology and the University: Core II http://core2spring2013.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/03/16/project-management-aka-your-hand-is-not-your-day-planner/#comment-113 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:07:54 -0400 Really loved the interesting historical highlights of project management innovation! I find there is some major irony in the world of Project Management these days. I don’t know how many books I’ve picked up […]

]]> 30d6bcc5dd7ff0c2d98a2a806db0e554 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/03/08/cruel-java/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:58:32 -0500 Thumbnail

Heaps of praise are not what one will find being thrown at any portion of the Java programming language lately. See for instance these recent articles:

What Is Java, Is It Insecure, and Should I Use It? [<a […]

]]> 2a5675f5c165edc708ffa7d75ce9c527 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/03/02/xml-xslt-saxon-hello-world/ Sat, 02 Mar 2013 06:45:21 -0500 I have logged a lot of hours this semester trying to learn some things that make the concepts we’ve been discussing in our Digital Humanities classes somewhat practical. Save for the few computer science people […]

]]> a847e45e73ebc8101b8f582c7bff7b1d Anderson Evans and Daniel Terry are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/191328/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:52:02 -0500 690d38d31880f1756a4ec2c655f9665e Anderson Evans joined the group Wordpress HELP!! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/191039/ Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:12:25 -0500 23b898056bc1efed75a2a67a2f62901a Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/21/xmlmovingbeyond/ Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:15:41 -0500 ThumbnailI’ve been practicing with XML and XSLT stylesheets.  Using this list from the LA Times I’ve been able to create a very basic data set complete with book covers.  I believe this is a very good first step toward […]

]]> 99e48206dceb2daa1b886ebad92ce6a4 Anderson Evans commented on the post, Kitchen Sink Revision Project!, on the site Interactive Technology and the University: Core II http://core2spring2013.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/16/kitchen-sink-revision-project/#comment-49 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:58:02 -0500 I added a couple things, but my group specifically spoke about note taking. I think there should also be a section (maybe under note taking, maybe under data) about text editors that are useful in writing up text […]

]]> 7ba18043c14a7e77e9bbf9cd8e59d624 Anderson Evans edited the wiki page Kitchen Sink/Kitchen Table Utilities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/190544/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:45:00 -0500 7ba18043c14a7e77e9bbf9cd8e59d624 Anderson Evans edited the wiki page Kitchen Sink/Kitchen Table Utilities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/190526/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:45:00 -0500 0bdd22cdb14fd301b131195361312254 Anderson Evans and Julie Fuller (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/190476/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:21:27 -0500 381fbdbe23633a6c99ca31c384cceae7 Anderson Evans and Michelle A. McSweeney (Johnson) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/190471/ Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:02:19 -0500 b7559c4534a3d07fc4cd2529f155731b Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/10/nes-instruction-manuals/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:48:58 -0500 For experimental use of OCR software and text encoding I have decided to switch from attempting to pull out text from comic books (which has proven difficult), and to pull from databases of video game instruction […]

]]> e00e3dc9bd05768dff5a15ed9a53f76d Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/09/uncle-scrooge-corpus-project-2/ Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:27:36 -0500 ThumbnailAs far as data sets go, Comichron.com has a detailed table presenting data on Uncle Scrooge comics distributed from 1960 to 1998.  This table can be found here: <a […]

]]> e2897877efb60d0d37c01b588b67e7d8 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/02/09/uncle-scrooge-corpus-project-session-1/ Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:07:36 -0500 ThumbnailUncle Scrooge Corpus Project
Session 1

So my first attempt at text extraction was to take a very old Uncle Scrooge comic book, and use the OCR tools in Adobe Acrobat X. I am not completely unfamiliar with […]

]]> 9254f02504322be7008a00060439ea67 Anderson Evans joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/188216/ Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:44:49 -0500 e7c0b1806fa61020a49c4800dd558d99 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Personal DH Methods Blog http://andersondh2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/01/31/goals/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:54:04 -0500 Interested in exploring the following tools/methods:

Hoping to get more familiar with practical API use
Interested in how the internet landscape can be utilized with changes from HTML4 to HTML5/CSS3 in terms […]

]]> 556eaa843e2b15dc95b5728ea77501a6 Anderson Evans and Samantha Kretmar are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/186051/ Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:41:57 -0500 b327741ba9a4063d955e18a640defc2d Anderson Evans and Bronwyn are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/179834/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:55:30 -0500 70ec4fc06f5ea495046c58f3cfaa14b5 Anderson Evans commented on the post, Can Accessibility Focus Hinder Accessibility?, on the site DHDebates: Towards a Networked Academy http://dhdebates12.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/12/03/can-accessibility-focus-hinder-accessibility/#comment-54 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:03:49 -0500 Paul,

Interesting points, let me see if I can address them…

I think the concept of my leaning toward a “lonely hacker” mentality, or the idea that I do not think the crowd should be a major source of […]

]]> 9f9b947ae6cc77141631314715bbd230 Anderson Evans and Rebecca Olerich are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/97750/ Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:01:21 -0500 4475fb31b2b84ef3f7c003eb9fb4cc09 Anderson Evans and Dale Katherine Ireland are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/97044/ Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:10:48 -0500 01af81e5509957badaa157a429fe4c02 Anderson Evans and Erin Glass are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/95411/ Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:44:47 -0500 e46a16995966736d6181ce13fd293c46 Anderson Evans and Luisina Silva are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/85788/ Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:00:12 -0400 0d5fac8578143ef6d6db657433fccded Anderson Evans commented on the post, Gamification 1: Establishing a basis of analysis. , on the site Cybertrope http://cybertrope.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/09/20/gamification-1-establishing-a-basis-of-analysis/#comment-5 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:03:02 -0400 Beginning to think I need to change the word “Gamification” as I am using it in a sense that might, at this point, be inappropriate. This term seems to have been adopted by the marketing sector, and this adoption […]

]]> 307292fb68b877b13f9a37731c371377 Anderson Evans and Robin Camille Davis are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/84369/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:58:35 -0400 4a6918ed44998d7c121fdaeec5574b98 Anderson Evans commented on the post, Round-Up for 10/7, on the site Footenotes http://bfoote.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/10/07/round-up-for-107/#comment-230 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:03:41 -0400 That Ohio State video just blew my mind.

]]> 12cd88d8c26cadde0386831e65920d0d Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Cybertrope http://cybertrope.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/10/08/autodesk-animator-my-favorite-toy/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:24:30 -0400 Autodesk Animator: This was my favorite use of my computer as a child. Unfortunately I never did anything that amazing, and anything I did do is now lost in the hull of a Packerd Bell 486 that I’m sure is long […]

]]> dbd60e037c0df619c0b54b29e3d6f0f1 Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Cybertrope http://cybertrope.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/10/08/thoughts-on-thatcamp-nyc-2012/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:09:14 -0400 Thumbnail

I attended THATCamp NYC this weekend, and it was a great time, and I met some cool people, and really got to know some classmates. The organizers did a great job, served some really great food, and beyond […]

]]> a3db28c3ee0626c19e610f23f22f8022 Anderson Evans and Christina are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/83864/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:57:36 -0400 eb48c9b4df5a2c48bedcc3612e448a8f Anderson Evans and Jennifer Stoops are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/83828/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:25:51 -0400 e770b0df35f768af3f661ad5c06ed0fe Anderson Evans and Kylah Torre are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/83823/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:55:00 -0400 e6fe8defe210af4a1ed6f25ca8dfe1db Anderson Evans and James are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/83765/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:29:05 -0400 0d0cce81ab8a6578f4b14c2db2d619ca Anderson Evans wrote a new post on the site Cybertrope http://cybertrope.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/10/01/preserving-virtual-worlds-final-report/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:44:46 -0400 ThumbnailThe Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report from The Graduate School of Library & Information Science @ Urbana-Champaign (Aug 31, 2010)

This robust report is a must-read. It isn’t just packed with information, […]

]]> ae50faf14c08d869a68d95436bc7c77e Anderson Evans and Jonathan Knust are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/83644/ Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:08:08 -0400