This Interactive Qualifying Project seeks to incorporate innovative techniques of the digital humanities with traditional methods of data organization in order to produce layered and informative representations of early American voting figures. Using Microsoft Excel and Esri ArcGIS, we have developed a geographic information system (GIS) that allows Massachusetts election data for selected House of Representatives races (1798 and 1800) to be topographically displayed alongside insightful demographical data layers. We have constructed a comprehensive methodology that explains the construction of the IQP's GIS representations and illustrates analytical strategies of map interpretation, in order to better inform and instruct future efforts.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• MacDonald, Bryan J.
• Boudreau, Daniel Ronald

Subject

• Culture
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030513-131535

关键词

• Digital humanities
• Interactive multimedia

Advisor

• Cocola, Jim

Year

• 2013

Sponsor

• American Antiquarian Society

Date created

• 2013-03-05

地点

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright