Current material
- 6 .txt file: raw data
| Title | Author | Dates | Volume/Issue Number | Pages | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Register, Summer 1904 | New York, United States | 1904 | Unique | 371 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b534240&view=1up&seq=1 |
| 2 | Social Register, Summer 1910 | New York, United States | 1910 | Unique | 394 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b534241&view=thumb&seq=1 |
| 3 | Social Register, Summer 1916 | New York, United States | 1916 | Unique | 810 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b534242&view=thumb&seq=1 |
| 4 | Social Register, Summer 1917 | New York, United States | 1917 | Unique | 730 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b534243&view=thumb&seq=1 |
| 5 | Social Register, Summer 1918 | New York, United States | 1918 | Unique | 672 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b534244&view=thumb&seq=659 |
| 6 | Social Register, Summer 1919 | New York, United States | 1919 | Unique | 682 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b534245&view=thumb&seq=1 |
My goal for this material would be to compare the different years, especially 1918 and 1919, to understand how the Spanish Flu pandemic and the global depression after the Great War impacted the possessions of New York City residents, as well as their ability to move for the summer season. I believe it will take a further research into the other registers of New York City. Some lines of the summer registers report the death of the residence owner, so I find very interesting inquire in those two years, spectators of one of the hardest times the world has ever experienced.
Updates:
1. 1/23/2021: Isolated the two .txt files on GitHub for research purposes (2hrs.)
2. 2/1/2021: Starting to clean the Social Register, Summer 1918 (5 hrs.)
3. 2/9/2021: After consulting with Dr. Hanley, I procedeed cleaning the .txt file social_register_1918 (2 hrs.)
4. 2/15/2021: During the weekend I found the key to work with the social registers: due to the size and the amount of raw data present in the text, working on samples to understand how it may work on the complete document and, then, work piece by piece to reproduce the steps done on the sample. At the moment, the file social_register_1918 has been partially cleaned, the first two pages has been transformed in .csv files with OpenRefine, and imported in Google Data Studio to produce the first round of data. (weekend work: 5 hrs. - Monday work: 1 hr.) Link to the report: https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/a9322446-e234-40d3-b702-8c36c47dc023
5. 2/23/2021: Interestingly, Rstudio was easy to use and took me about 3-4 hours to understand how to make it work, but most importantly why part of Healy description was not working with my data. Being a non-numerical .csv file was the disclaimer for not being able to produce an understandable graph (see "rstudio_console_ex_feb_24.txt" for results). It was useful understanding R syntax and how to combine it to make a simple, understandable graph.
6. 2/30/2021: Created the first shell of my website and stored locally for the moment. Currently the effort is concentrated in learning how to model it and make it work both for desktop, and mobile - also for future projects, not related to my current academic work.
7. 3/9/2021: On Sunday, I created two .png files from Voyant, one from 1918 .txt and the other from 1919 .txt. They will serve as ideal starting point to create the following steps of this week's homework. (30 min.)