The first network I used was “Urban agricultural history.” This network brought back 529 documents. Of the 17,076 terms found, 308 occurred over 10 times. The terms that were deemed most relevant were quite surprising to me. Species richness, metal, species composition, lead, and stream were all stratified as most relevant with a score in […]
Epstein, Richard A. “Caste and the Civil Rights Laws: From Jim Crow to Same-Sex Marriages.” Michigan Law Review 92, no. 8 (1994): 2456-478. http://apps.webofknowledge.com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/CitationReport.do?product=UA&search_mode=CitationReport&SID=7EEgg7EEbMxjPWfsX3T&page=1&cr_pqid=39&viewType=summary Total number of citations: 191 What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published? Published in 1995, the highest number of citations […]
The dimension I chose for gender inequality was advanced degrees awarded at the PhD level. I wanted to learn what the disparity between males and females were for awarded advanced degrees, how this compared to undergraduate degrees, and which countries had the most equal rates of degrees awarded by gender. The most important indicator for […]
Last week facilitated an illuminating conversation due to my previous ignorance of the topic. In many ways, the discussion points were both familiar and unfamiliar. The articles critiqued the shortcomings of data being used to reveal gender equality rates. This was familiar for me; as a historian, I am accustomed to questioning evidence and deconstructing […]
The first two weeks of class and readings have illuminated upon several of the course’s objective learning statements and thematic questions. In particular, many of the articles focused on how information flows in and out of socio-technical systems and the ways that researchers access, arrange, organize, and describe information. Safiya Umoja Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression […]
Hello everyone! I hope everyone had an enjoyable winter break! My name is Bryan and I am in the department of history. My original research explored historical memory and communal identity within communities of color after integration in the United States. More specifically,I examined the phenomena of Jim Crow Nostalgia, and how many residents within […]