Through a Digital Lense

The timeline tool that I used for the Unit 4 option assignment is called Time Graphics.  This was a cool website to use to create a timeline.  The website was very useful and can be played around with some more.  Although the timeline I made was not the approved topic, I actually enjoyed using it.  If I did this earlier, had the approved topic, and take the time to really play around with the usage, it could have been better than what I did. What I find cool about this website is that anyone can make a timeline.  One can publish it for the public or just make it private to themselves.  It would be very interesting to use it for a family tree timeline of sorts.  Or one can use it, for an example, the life of someone from history. It gives the option to change the color, add pictures, and give the descriptions needed.  Overall, I enjoyed using this site and will use it again in the future.

I have found a website called http://www.virginiamemory.com/ which I believe would be a crowd-sourcing website.  It is a website of the Library of Virginia that has archives of newspapers, exhibitions, and others via online.   In 2017, University of Virginia School of Law Library has started a crowdsourcing initiative to transcribe centuries of handwritten legal history.  It is an opportunity for the public to view scanned documents of historical interest and others can contribute.  The documents would date back to the 1700s.  Some documents they have are from John B. Minor, who was a famous jurist who had taught at UVA Law for 50 years.  Other documents includes the Revolutionary War, post-WW2 human rights treaties from the United Nations, and many others.  The article:  https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/201706/crowdsourcing-history Update on Project: I have done my project, just need to make my adjustments before I turn it in tonight.

Update on Project: I have gathered some information to make the graphs for the population of Virginia and Alexandria City.  I am trying to make data visualizations of the population, the demography, and race of Alexandria City.  So far I have made graphs for everything but race.  I have been using population.us website to get my information on the numbers.   I was introduced to Public Tableau by Professor Evans and I have to say, it is quite useful.  It is a bit tricky to use at first, but there are tutorials on the usage of the software.  Although the tutorials have been great, I've been just trying to learn as I go.  One can use HTML coding as well, but with Public Tableau it seems way easier.  I was able to download the software onto my MacBook.  I use Excel spreadsheets to download the data to make my graphs.  I've been using bar graphs, but for the race portion of my project, I am going to try using a pie graph.  Public tableau is also a very interesting site because