Internet Security & The Rise of Union Station
April 28, 2014
Internet Security My personal activities online could probably be more secure. I tend to not worry too much about social media sites and my privacy on those; however, I am more cautious with what goes up on those sites. I dislike long passwords, and tend to have not amazingly strong passwords, which could be dangerous. […]
Exhibit
April 16, 2014
In my research I found that Union Station was actually built in the middle of a working class neighborhood, called Swampoodle, of Irish immigrants that worked on a lot of the monuments and wanted to be close to work. Union Station ended that neighborhood and ultimately the Irish immigrants kind of disappeared. I found this […]
Text Mining and Update
April 9, 2014
Text Mining I found text mining interesting. The tools we used were nice to compare and look for trends through large documents or sets of information. However, I struggled to see how it could be used as strong evidence for anything. There was definitely a use for personal analysis, and as illustrations for larger points, […]
Mapping History
April 3, 2014
Maps Creating my map was interesting. It took a bit of a learning curve to understand how points helped or could tell a story on a map. I had no issues creating my map, but it was oddly time consuming as far as creating a spreadsheet. At the moment I don’t have much more insight […]