by Carolyn Nuelle | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
What a ride! I’ve been thinking a lot about where I was one calendar year ago, before the start of last summer’s CURI project, and the difference is enormous. I had never heard of ArcGIS, I had no idea what the letters “CSV” stood for, and the...
by Carolyn Nuelle | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
During the past year or two, the various Musical Geographers associated with this project have gone through several ways of organizing our data. Some are clearly more effective than others: the first summer, student researchers began with a easily-editable but...
by Carolyn Nuelle | May 19, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
On May 9, our Directed Undergraduate Research class had the opportunity to workshop our mapping projects with Dr. Lincoln Mullen, a spatial historian and professor at George Mason University. He gave us useful feedback about our individual work, but also helped us...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Apr 4, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Throughout the past couple of weeks of reading, discussion, and conversation, we’ve explored several different reasons why students and scholars choose to make and use digital maps. Recently we’ve been able to articulate some of these potential “goal...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Mar 9, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
For my long-term project this semester, I’m revisiting some of the data and source material about jazz and music-hall performances in Paris during the 1920s. At first, I just wanted to tie up lose ends- although I finished a jazz venues map, I still have a lot...
