by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Before embarking on this project, Dr. Watrall said that making a database in SQL and taking online with PHP would involve too steep a learning curve to climb within the context of my participation in CHI this year. He was right. Ultimately, we decided that the most...
by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In this post, I reflect on the possibility of building a spatial map of the information that is contained in the database. The initial challenge is to learn how to build such a map using HTML and Java. HILT and CHI introduced me to the basics of this work, but I would...
by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In some of my earlier blogging in CHI, I reflected on the extent to which a digital database would reflect the ways of thinking and knowing that were used by the people who produced the data points from which the database is built. Here, I try to collect those...
by doyleras | Apr 28, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Using WampServer, I produced an SQL database of information regarding the production and consumption of hydroelectricity in several towns in Uganda and Kenya from 1954-63. I chose this dataset because these years saw the largest increase in hydroelectric power in the...
by doyleras | Mar 31, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I have now created a database of tables about the production and consumption of hydroelectricity in the final decade of colonial rule in Uganda and Kenya, i.e. the years after the construction of the Owen Falls Dam for which I have been able to digitize data (I am...
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