This week we were asked to map the closest cities and amphiteaters to Rome according to expenses in our dataset. I started working on this, and understand everything up to the point I’m up to. In other words, I understand that in order to create a map of this specific data I need to subset information from the larger dataset, however, it’s not very clear to me how to make the actual map. Here’s a […]
This week I tried playing around with the igraph package in R. This package helps “connect the dots” between nodes and edges — or in other words, a specific point and a path connecting between two points. I have to admit that I did not enjoy using this package as it is not intuitive or documented very well. With the help of the Stack Overflow forum, I was able to create the plot above . […]
For this assignment, I’ll be creating a virtual tour of amphitheaters in Italy, and allowing the user to visit external links, such as Wikipedia to find out more information on the specific location. This will be put together using CartoDB and Odyssey.js. To do this, I will create a subset of data from the main dataset of Amphitheaters, turn that subset into a geoJSON file, upload it to CartoDB, clean it up and perhaps add […]
It’s not secret to anyone that Jerusalem is a tense and intense city, especially when it comes to religion. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all see this city in some way or another as a place of significant religious importance. Will (my classmate) and I are interested to do research in this field and see if there is any way to quantify religious importance of these religions throughout the years. Since this is obviously a very […]