This Story of the Data of my Stories will cover the construction of a dashboard for my thesis, a middle-grade novel that necessitated a lot of research into California flora & fauna.
Read moreStory Data Story Two: Black Name Analysis part 2: Prepare, Process, Analyze
It’s time for Part 2 of my Story Data Story Black Onomastics trilogy. We’re still covering my collection, organization, and analysis of data regarding Black names.
I decided to work with the names from The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases after all, and this meant adding another 60,000+ entries before I cleaned it, resulting in 67,030 entries and 48296 unique names.
I’ve ended up with a Google spreadsheet that has 7 sheets with over 123,125 rows and a total of 66,565 unique names. Is there any wonder I want more power to shift through this?
In any case, I want to answer as many of my questions as I can with the spreadsheet as it is and then move the data into Tableau so I can compare it with US Census name data going back to 1880. The finale will hopefully have chord diagrams and other cool visualizations.
Read moreStory Data Story One: Black Name Analysis part 1: ASK
I’m digging into my process of collecting and organizing meaningful Black names, whether that’s from scraping Wikipedia pages or studying the US Census.
I originally started these lists with the question of “What are the characteristics of diasporic African American names and how do they compare with African names versus colonizer/ European-American names?”
Or in short,
“What makes a Black name Black?”
Read moreStory Data Story One: Ideas Masterlist
This is the first of several posts covering the story of how I assemble and utilize data for creative projects. In this case, I’ll look at the spreadsheet where I store the data of prospective, in-progress, and on-submission stories and ideas.
Most of my professional content will be hosted on my GitHub portfolio but I thought my blog was as good a place as any to practice a bit of data storytelling!
Story Data Story: Literary Magazine Rankings
This is the final placeholder post that may later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheets where I rank literary magazines according to who they published, how often they publish award-winning work, and other information.
Read moreStory Data Story: Chocolate Cities
This is the final placeholder post that may later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheets where I rank literary magazines according to who they published, how often they publish award-winning work, and other information.
Read moreStory Data Story: Floriography for Lotus/Thistle
This is a placeholder draft post that will later be about the process/story of how I assembled and utilized data for one of my creative projects—in this case, the spreadsheet where I combined scientific data on the entire plant kingdom with the meanings given by several floriography (ie the language of flowers) books—with a bit of hanakotoba meanings mixed in.
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