by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Over the course of this interim term, I have done extensive researching, map making, and web-app building. Today, as a class, we were finally able to present our work to the general public, and wow was it gratifying. When you are buried in folders upon folders of...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
At this point in the term, we’ve split the class into small subgroups, but this time, instead of dividing based on research interest, we’ve grouped ourselves based on our “specializations.” To clarify, we’ve decided that at this point,...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 17, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my work on musicological mapping up to this point, I have found that by far my greatest and most important asset has been persistence. At this point in the term, our class has divided mostly into smaller subgroups each tasked with researching and mapping different...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 11, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Over the past week, our class has split into groups tasked with the goal of recreating/updating a preexisting physical map in a digital form. We’ve learned about data formatting, digital tools, (Google Maps and ArcGIS online) important stylistic and aesthetic...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 8, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In our first three (has it really only been three?!) days of class, we have read about the use of Geographic Information Systems, or GIS for short, in the humanities, and about the various subtle traps one might fall into if one is not diligent in map-making. A...
