Group members: Feraidon AbdulRahimzai, Hadi Ramazani, Jamal Omosun, Gideon Antwi
Our Topic
We as a group have decided to look through the Carleton course catalogs and record and create a timeline of courses offered at Carleton College. We would like to see how courses have evolved and how interests have changed at the college over time.
Sources
- College Course Catalouges (Online catalouges)
Proceses
- OpenRefine
- TimelineJS
- Transcribing data into CSV formats
Presentation
We will produce a timeline of the courses offered throughout the history of Carleton College categorized by subject.
Timeline
- Monday – Explore Courses at Carleton
- Tuesday – Collect all relevant sources that we need
- Wednesday – Translate those sources into a CSV
- Thursday – Create a timeline JS from the Data
- Friday – Create a final project website
Useful Projects
https://simile-widgets.org/timeline/
Gideon – I want to see how modern classes compare with old classes at Carleton and what was popular back in the older days of Carleton
Feraidon – I am interested in seeing how classes at Carleton have evolved and what classes have become popular nowadays
Hadi – I am interested to see when stem classes became more popular at Carleton College
Jamal – I am interested in the academic history and looking at course offerings gives a view into the history of the school and historical trends
