What I Learned During My Summer Practicum: On Escape, Reevaluation, and Being a Public Human

To finish off my summer practicum, I had to put together a presentation of five things I learned. As I was doing this, I realized that the most important things I learned were the things that I already knew. And more importantly, I realized that I am a public human.

“Hindsight Is Always 20/20”

I’ve visited this installation twice now, and I’m fascinated by its data-as-art example. (Is this a common trend in art that I just haven’t gotten around to yet?) It’s in the newly renovated American Presidents wing at the National Portrait Gallery, which is a treat in itself to visit.

Learning to Extract & Understand Twitter Data

From HASTAC:

The Founding of Stars Hollow: Glassberg on Gilmore Girls (Part One)

From Stars Hollow Historical Society:

Six Museums, Five Art Galleries, One Zoo

Visiting the Hirshhorn

I finally made it to the Hirshhorn after many, many visits to DC. Unfortunately, I was a bit too late to visit Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrors”.  However, I did get to check out the rest of the Masterworks collection. I was particularly captivated by this piece:

Chapter 3: The Atlanta Compromise, Reacting to the Past

From HASTAC, as part of a collaborative review of Structuring Equality:

A Day of Public Humanizing

From Day of PH:

Catalog as Book, File, and Database: Cataloging History, Part 3

Co-written with Steven Lubar on Medium:

Calling Something a Dataset: Visualizing the Crystal Palace

From Digital Storytelling: