I’ve been a fan of Excel spreadsheets for a while. They were useful in planning college class schedules and budgets. I even used them in museum internships, once for listing education collection items that we couldn’t find paperwork for but the curator remembered so that if she ever left, someone else would know about them. […]

A few days ago, I attended the free Recent Advances at High Elevation Archaeology Symposium held at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody. It was very interesting, although I have to admit that some things went over my head since I’ve only had a basic archaeology course several years ago. I found myself […]

I thought I would start reviewing castles and palaces I visited in Europe, starting with the four I used for my thesis, in the hopes that I would remember to post here more regularly. We’ll begin with Hampton Court Palace. I loved visiting Hampton Court Palace outside London. Hampton Court is actually two palaces in one: […]

Now that I finally got my thesis sent in to my committee, the only thing I have left to worry about is my defense. My advisor told me to prepare a talk (max. 10 minutes) in which to describe how I came up with my topic and recap the major points of my thesis. While […]

Hello! It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I’ve written on here. So much for my New Year’s Resolution to use social media more (although I have gotten better at Twitter at least). Maybe this can be a summer’s resolution to do this more regularly (once every week or two) – although the […]

I’ve been having such a great experience through the Open Palace Programme!! It’s been a great group of people with helpful, wonderful mentors. I have been learning so much and taking tons of notes and photos; I’m probably still missing some things, but I think most of it should come back with me. The session […]

Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman explores the intersecting mediums of space/place and new technology. New technology like smartphones allows the user to be part of both the physical and virtual worlds – to embody a space that is physical and yet also rooted in the virtual interfaces. Embodiment is […]

After playing around with the types of visualization on Many Eyes from IBM, I ultimately decided that this scatter plot was most interesting, based on the data I had chosen to use from my database. I had taken the building or owner’s loss and consolidated it into a scale I devised, numbering from 0-10; I […]

Thanks to Ryah for sharing the information about undersea Google Earth in Sydney Harbor with me in the short course earlier today. With just a quick glance, this seems to be a very interesting concept underway and a great way to get students interested in oceans, marine wildlife and flora, and science/biology. Now the question […]

In the late 1800s, the insurance business was about ‘taking a risk.’ These risks were calculated into financial terms. Loss was also part of this insurance business as papers discussed ‘a loss of __’ as well as in general damage terms. Through force-directed graphs and sankey diagrams (which show relationships, connections and flow), it is […]