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Crowdsourced Knowledge: How to Read a Wikipedia Article
Growing up in the early 2000s, I was taught that Wikipedia was not a credible source to be used independently in my papers. I had to use scholarly articles, papers, books, etc. Now in 2018, Wikipedia probably still has that stigma but I think that it is becoming more accepted if at least a reference while conducting scholarly research. When a person living in the past 17 years, wants to find out more information about a topic, say Digital Humanities they Google it. One of the top five results will be a Wikipedia article. A person in 2018 might ask how did Google but most importantly in this case, Wikipedia…
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Mapping with kepler.gl
Kepler.gl is a mapping software that lets the user import data and filter based on what they wish to see. I had a decent experience using this tool. The user needs to make sure that any data that they have is put into the correct format and in an Excel spreadsheet. Then upload the data, add layers to filter by, add filters and play around with the software. With this tool one is able to see the relationships of the topics based on where they were located and how often that city was mentioned. Here are some photos of the activity that I completed: