Archive for April, 2014

Hacking and Omeka Site

Our online activities are not as secure as we think! After the speaker presented his information, I found out a lot about internet safety. Passwords are easily hacked and it is easy for hackers to get private information about our lives. So far I only have a few items on my Omeka site. I did, […]

Exhibit

As I create my project, I have to start planning the exhibit I plan on creating. The topic of my exhibit will be statistics of crime in DC during the 1960s to 2000. I found a really helpful website, which can be found here. This website is found on disaster center and is an extremely helpful […]

Progress

Text-mining tools are not that valuable to my research project just because it does not give me data or statistics. For example, Wordle is a great tool that is visually appealing. But for my topic, it would only be visually appealing rather than having an informative meaning. Google Ngram is only helpful in the sense […]

Washington DC: The Murder Capital of the US

  The URL to the map I created can be found here. I did not run into any problems while creating my map. I actually found it to be very useful! By creating this map, I am able to see where the different neighborhoods, parks, etc are in relation to one another. I also found […]