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Because of my internship, I am able to use a variety of tools I did not know existed. I only used a small portion of what was fully available, but it was a good place to start off with to see what was possible. I am also now able to look at big data sets and not become so overwhelmed – since now I have an idea about how to break it up and break up the workload to make it manageable. I have also learned the ways that I like to work on a project and how to work with others. For example, I know that once I receive…

What I learned about this digital public humanities internship experience is just like in the name, “Digital Public Humanities” it encompasses a variety of fields. In my internship I have learned that it takes constant communication and working with various people in numerous fields. They all bring something unique to the table to figure out how to make a project work. It requires a usage of different types of skills. For example, working with computers, coding sometimes, research, data analytics, historical presentations, just to name a few. Besides that it is also the ability to work collaboratively with one another and try to bring what you know and are willing…

The skills/knowledge learned from previous coursework that I am applying to this internship are the ideas of the importance of telling a story, finding evidence within the large data pool, and the importance of organization. In terms of telling a story, it is one thing to just give the facts. That is okay to do but it also needs to be told in a way that is logical and helps the audience follow along. Finding the evidence within a large data pool is challenging in this case because the input data is just words. However, those words can have meaning and that meaning is what makes this project complex. To…

So far sthere were at least four new eye-opening experiences in my internship thus far as I continued my internship at the Smithsonian. I am trying a new software to use to extract some information about the SI Annual Reports data. Since I started the internship up again this spring semester, I have been trying to acclimate myself with writing code again after a few months. I’m learning about spaCy, an open-source Natural Language Processing Python library. I’m noticing that the skills that I learned in my undergraduate career with computer science and some work experience has helped me understand this library. To be honest, right now I’m only in…

What I am doing that is successful in this internship is how I am initially tracking, organizing, and completing my work. Since a couple of months ago when I noticed that I was having difficulties tracking the work that I was completing, I became more diligent to improve. I started to track my work in order to know what I am supposed to do. By creating a plan of my work, it keeps me focused on what I need to accomplish and how I might go about analyzing the data from another angle. Next semester I want to try to have at least some of the work that I need…

During this internship, I have learned how to work in a way that is most beneficial to me and with that comes the knowledge of enhancing old and new skills. I have figured out a process in conducting my internship work and I’m still in the process of figuring out what exact skills I have gained thus far. I can give some examples and expand on it to see where I am at currently and where I would like to go in the future. Some skills that I am enhancing on is my data analysis skills. I am looking at data critically and trying to determine what can be concluded…

What I enjoy most during my internship thus far is the flexibility of when I can work to complete my work. The downside to that is trying to make sure that what I am completing is what is required. I can improve on this by providing weekly snapshots of my work and figuring out how I can improve on it. One thing that I want to know more about to help me in my work is researching more on data analysis work and the theoretical methods. I have a vague sense of what it is and the various methods but I want to figure out how to apply it better…