The Data of Humanity

If Professor Croxall asks, I’m not a procrastinator. I finished my reading and my project well before it was due, and I’m typing this blog post with plenty of time to spare. I definitely did NOT waste several hours by playing with graphs on gapminder.org instead of doing the several pages worth of essays that I have due at the end of the week. No one is that irresponsible, right? If anyone else asks, then I’ll admit it: I am a procrastinator, and I spent a lot of time messing with the graphs on gapminder.org. Professor Croxall might give me a pass on this one too, because in Ramsey-esque style, I think my screwing around was it’s own form of hermeneutic. Gapminder is just a graph of economics, comparing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with average life expectancy in any country and any given year. You can see, over time, how…

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Simply Adverbs

I never thought that I would be so fascinated by 21 pages dedicated to the analysis of adverb usage. It’s not the sort of thing that most people sit around discussing. Because, let’s face it, I never would have considered that such a small thing c…

Film Project

Allie, Winthrop, and I were able to work with the movies such as the Wizard of Oz, The Greatest Showman, and The Sound of Music. Here is the link to our slideshow. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17KZIoeCXqbJE26U-evsIt7HgqVp_TrqL7Dj2lDJ4ZNg/edit…