by Julia DeCook | May 2, 2018 | CHI Announcements, CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
After a long seven months of dreaming, planning, and making, I’m happy to announce that my project, “Networks of Hate: Visualizing Extremist Celebrity Networks” is now live! The motivation behind building this website was to visualize the ways in which extremist...
by ellio252 | May 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today, I officially launch my website, “Moscow: The Corner of Communism and Capitalism,” which uses my dissertation on temporary labor migration to Moscow to examine the interplay between communism and capitalism in Moscow. The project stemmed from both my...
by ellio252 | Apr 30, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
I am writing this blog from Moscow, the place that my website (now almost fully functional) is about. I find it appropriate to discuss all the ways that I have seen migration play out over the course of my various stays here. I first came to Moscow in June 2011 as an...
by dixonel7 | Apr 27, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
This is one of my last weeks at CHI and its led me to think about all of the progress I’ve made this year learning to code. I’m not sure if my project will really highlight all that I know and have learned when I showcase it next week, but I really have made a ton of...
by dixonel7 | Apr 13, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned during this CHI project is how necessary various forums on HTML and CSS are to a person’s progress on a project. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had to rely entirely on the Twine Cookbook and googling random questions online...
by carlinek | Apr 6, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Two weeks ago, I went to Northeastern University’s 10th annual Graduate World History conference. My paper was largely based on the sources that I draw on for my CHI project. This was my first time showing my site to the public, and the deadline for the...
by Daniel Fandino | Mar 31, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
With the technical issues of my project mostly resolved, the remaining elements to complete are the core of the web site: the information on the venues and their connection to the remaking of the Tokyo cityscape. To restate my original goal, I am seeking to explore...
by ellio252 | Mar 30, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
The most rewarding aspect of my project has been working on my map since it has been the most challenging. I opted to use leaflet.js to build my map, which shows how many migrants each region in Russia sent to Moscow in various years between 1970 and 2000. I first...
by Julia DeCook | Mar 29, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
I have had to tone down some of my initial goals for what I thought my network would be, but am still going to endeavor to make a semi-interactive network and a website to house information for people who are interested in viewing the affiliations that extreme right...
by ellio252 | Mar 29, 2018 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
For my remaining blogs, I plan to address the different technological elements on my website. First up are the graphs that I have created using AM Charts, a website that allows you to build JavaScript charts, graphs, and maps. For my website, I built graphs that show...
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