ScottB's onMason

I’m no fan of Metadata I can assure you.  Or the method Omeka requires its users to enter it.  They could at least offer an auto-fill option.  According to my observations, so much of the metadata one enters for these online exhibits is repetitive.  Many documents, graphs, still images etcetera a user would enter for […]

I’ll take text mining, thank you.  When it comes to counting words, finding frequencies and patterns on a large scale, relying on text mining is the way to go.  For studying these qualities or to research the history of the usage of words I would use a computer program like Google Ngram or Voyant to […]

There are many reasons digital mapping supersedes the benefits of traditional maps, the primary being the ability to update.  Back in the olden days, a paper map could only be updated by setting the old one on fire and printing out a new one complete with new information.  As Earth’s population spreads across the globe, […]

We were tasked with tracking specific data over the weekend, starting Thursday morning through Sunday night.  The class chose CLOTHING, BEVERAGES,  and PEOPLE as items to track.  I wanted to suggest we each pick a fourth category of our choice but the discussion was closed after 3catagories and I was not about to suggest more […]