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cngish98 / Language-of-Dickinson

Visit the final project site at http://dickinson.obdurodon.org/
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Project Update 04-22 #10

Open cngish98 opened 3 years ago

cngish98 commented 3 years ago

In our project meeting tonight, we started out by recapping what we had accomplished throughout the week. Rachel and I had met with Dr. Birnbaum over the weekend to add features to our reading view. We wanted our reading view to have multiple different functionalities to highlight all the different parts of our markup. We implemented tooltips to give possible elided strings and type of ellipsis for the ellipsis markup aspect that appear when you hover over any instance of [...] (our way of marking location of ellipsis) in the text of the poems. We have created a sidebar that will ultimately toggle on and off different colors of text in the poems depending on what theme is selected. The big thing we want to do is have a section where you can filter our corpus of poems and return a set of poems that match the selected criteria. This requires JavaScript, so Dr. Birnbaum is helping us out. We currently have 1 basic bar chart created to show themes in our data set and we made plans to create another basic one that visually represents ellipsis in our corpus (based on yes, no, or ambiguous). We have another graph almost completed that gets into more analysis of our data, and we made plans to get together to work on more in-depth SVG this upcoming week. The remaining big things we need to complete before we finish the project are finishing the methodology section, cleaning up the reading view (CSS) and adding functionality with JavaScript, and creating a few more charts with SVG for the analysis section.

ajm324 commented 3 years ago

Looking at your site, I think your reading view looks great and can't wait to see what it is like when all of the functionality is introduced. I specifically appreciate your "Not sure where to look" hidden search menu because it successfully encourages user engagement. Well done for seeking to incorporate so many technologies into your site, we also utilized a bit of javascript to make our reading view interactive, but you guys add a nice extra level of corpus filtering with your top navigation menu. The only comment I would make is that the coloring for nature and animals and abstract concepts are pretty similar and get a tad hard to distinguish when they occur right next to each other. Congrats though, you guys are definitely in the home stretch!

cngish98 commented 3 years ago

@ajm324 Thank you for the suggestion! We noticed that too and are working on choosing a new and improved color (it's a bit challenging to tackle 9 different colors) :)

gec34 commented 3 years ago

Your reading view is incredibly well done. I also liked the not sure where to start link, which makes the page user friendly for someone more unsure about which parts of the text to explore. One suggestion I'd make is since your table can take visitors pretty far down the page, you may want to consider adding some sort of scroll up or move to the top button. That way once they finish reading they can quickly move onto your methods and results sections.