by Natalie Kopp | Jun 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Now that we’ve all emerged from our so-called “hack-fest” (a three day period of solely data-entry), we can pause and take a breath knowing that the bulk of our data entry is behind us. We can also pause to make more nuanced and informed critiques of our methodology....
by Breanna Olson | Jun 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Our principal tasks as researchers thus far has been seeking out performances that happened in 1924 Paris. At first, we thought we would be finding them by reading letters and biographies of prominent artists and composers of the time. We began with this tactic, and...
by Natalie Kopp | Jun 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Dear Future CURI Researcher, First of all, congratulations! You’re working on a great project and have an exciting 10 weeks ahead of you. Now down to business. I’m writing to provide you with tips on managing our entry form and our spreadsheet. We use a data entry...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 24, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
The Trouble with the Methodology A few posts back, I made a few comments on the methodology. Hopefully, between that and the rather more lucid explanations provided by my colleagues, you, dear reader, have some coherent notion of what our project...
by Philip Claussen | Jun 16, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015, Philip Claussen
Most of us, I would assume, are familiar with the old mnemonic device “five W’s and an H.” I remember learning it in 1st grade, and thought it was both painfully boring and absurdly obvious for something that we had to learn in school. I would much...
