Everything on my website is finally up and running correctly. The widgets are all operational, the research and explanatory text have been added, and all hyperlinks are active. This has been a remarkably frustrating experience. It's also been extremely rewarding. I hope that I will be able to take the things I've learned in this … Continue reading IRA Final Project Update 12/12/13
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IRA Project Update 11/21/13
After reading through everyone's comments on my project prototype, it seems like the major comments have to do with site layout and legends for maps/graphs. As far as the site layout goes, someone suggested that I have one page with the site map on it, rather than a site map on each main page. I'm … Continue reading IRA Project Update 11/21/13
IRA Project Update 11/15/13
Memories of Frontier Violence and the Indian Removal Act of 1830 Above is an updated version of my project's website. I've finally posted all of my research to the site and have altered the site's layout to hopefully make it a little more intuitive. Before next week I hope to finish writing the text explaining … Continue reading IRA Project Update 11/15/13
IRA Project Update 11/5/13
For some reason my project has been coming together fairly nicely in the last week or so. I finished the majority of my textual analysis (I decided to rely primarily upon word clouds) and am almost finished with the geospatial analysis. I also managed to put together a significant portion of my website and put … Continue reading IRA Project Update 11/5/13
IRA Project Update 10/28/13
I spent most of my weekend doing much the same thing I spent last week doing. I decided it might be easier to create Excel spreadsheets with the information I needed for my work with Google Earth and ArcGIS and then use those to create the map files with which I wanted to work. Turned … Continue reading IRA Project Update 10/28/13
IRA Project Update 10/22/13
At the moment, I am expanding the demographic data I have for the 21st Congress (the one that voted on the Indian Removal Act) to include the birthplaces of the members of Congress that voted on the Act. I have already entered in the data on the towns these congressmen represented. After I did that, … Continue reading IRA Project Update 10/22/13