I can’t believe the semester is almost over!!! This journey has been so rewarding but so exhausting at times. And I’m happy we are getting to a point where we get to wrap things up, look at what we created and present it to other people. I feel like my […]
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Last week, we discussed some of the design decisions for the website and I implemented them. I changed the fonts for the headers and the text body. I also changed the colors, since we decided to have dark backgrounds with white text instead of the white background with black text […]
During the past two weeks, our team has achieved a big part of the functionality we hoped to get to with our timeline. The vertical and horizontal timelines are now interactively dependent, which is really nice to see, since we have only been talking about how we imagine it to […]
This week, I progressed in the development of the wireframes for all our website components. I felt a relief to be finally able to show something to my team and get real-time feedback. I think with web development, it is really hard to make things look exactly how everyone is […]
It’s been a fun experience to share the website with my team and get their input and feelings on each page. Each one of the team brings a fresh perspective from the cemetery they are researching on the project and to see all of it come together onto our data […]
Starting to think about the Data Management Plan was somewhat challenging because it really forced our team to think a lot more about the project as a whole. We all realize that the data we will be using and the way we organize will go hand in hand with our […]
Nadia is a software engineer and a graduate student in the Master of Arts in Digital Humanities program at CUNY. She has graduated with a BA in Computer Science and Statistics, helping her to develop skills in software design and development with a focus on ethical practices and critical problem […]
This week, our team discussed the workflow we plan to commit to during the project development, specifically which tools we will be using to communicate (We decided on a Commons Group as a way to keep track on progress, share findings and feedback), as well as the content of our […]