Author: Ben_rider34

Today in class we looked at an interesting project about books and reading and what books people read the most but also what types of people read numerous types of different genres. The project explains how they got their data by looking at the data of 1750 of the most active readers on the social reading site Goodread. They used 10 different genres and then used the data of the readers to see not only what genre do people read the most but also how people mix their genres of books. They then used a 2D map to show the data because it is able to spread out genres on their own for people who only read one genre and then are able to mix them together when someone on the graph reads multiple genres of books. This 2D graph was cool to me but confusing at first. After getting it explained I understand how it works and it makes this project a lot cooler to me. To see the graph at first I was very confused because there weren’t any numbers on it like a regular graph would have and I didn’t really know what any of it meant. After hearing the explanation for it, it makes sense that it was to show what genre of books are easier to mix with other genres. It helped me understand what the project was even about even after reading the entire thing. Overall, this was a productive week in class and I was able to learn what a 2D graph was and it was cool to continue to look at different digital projects.

The project that I looked at was about Philadelphia immigration (https://phillyimmigration.nunncenter.net/gallery). The sources in this project were personal interviews, archival interviews from the 1980s, and also the Philadelphia Library. This project shows interviews from 117 people that were immigrants that lived in Philadelphia. The process in this project were just a bunch of interviews. All the interviews were actually made by West Chester students and they interviewed 20 people living in Philadelphia today that are immigrants. The rest of the interviews were archival interviews from people in the early 1980s. Finally, the presentation. The presentation shows all the interviews, on the first page there is a link to every person that was interviewed. All of the interviews are audio recording so you can’t read what they say in them you have to listen to them. The second page is just a background paragraph about everyone that was interviewed by the WCU students. The third page are a bunch of smaller projects these include podcasts, to historical writing pieces. The fourth slide is the archive which provides all of the sources that were used in creating this project. Overall here are the sources, process, and presentation that are apart of this project.