Who Borrowed These Books?

For this assignment we had to use the Dissenting Libraries website to discover who checked out certain books from a certain time period. I chose to do 1848-1849 from Manchester College. This one was a little more difficult for me and I feel like my data didn’t turn out the … Continue reading

For this assignment we had to use the Dissenting Libraries website to discover who checked out certain books from a certain time period. I chose to do 1848-1849 from Manchester College. This one was a little more difficult for me and I feel like my data didn’t turn out the way I expected. I didn’t have any overlapping connections, which I thought was weird and cleaning some of the data up, didn’t turn out like I thought. I got the information uploaded to Kumu, but couldn’t figure out exactly how to get it the way I wanted. I like Kumu, but the data scraping part is what confused me. I am interested in the connections I did find. It was interesting to see that John Jay Taylor had the strongest connection.

Social Networking With Kumu

This assignment brought a whole new meaning to the process of “trial and error.” While I struggled immensely with the intricate process of data scraping, the final product gave me a special appreciation for Kumu. This data mapping site brings a special awareness to the relationships between different elements. In this case, we see the […]

This assignment brought a whole new meaning to the process of “trial and error.”

While I struggled immensely with the intricate process of data scraping, the final product gave me a special appreciation for Kumu. This data mapping site brings a special awareness to the relationships between different elements. In this case, we see the relationship between students and the books they borrowed within 1845 at Manchester Academy. I gathered this data from Dissenting Academies Online. This data started out messy and complex so it needed to be scraped and cleaned. Although the last assignment went extremely well for me, this exercise was a different story. In my opinion this map was worth the struggle. Being able to see all of the information that taunted me in such a cool visual is strangely fulfilling. Below is the end result of my attempt at data scrapping.