Project Update: Personal Statement

Personal Work

So far, my contributions to the project have consisted of adding to our shared csv file where we’ve been compiling the necessary data on the artists/bands we need to create a visual representation. Specifically, I’ve been finding the genres for each artist listed on the Carleton Cave Archive. This hasn’t been too difficult, but it’s common for artists’ discographies to have multiple genres so deciding on the most relevant one is important. There’s also the issue of student bands not having much information available about them, so we may have some cells unfilled for the genre column.

Future Plans

Since it’s been taking some time to fully create the spreadsheet of all the artists who’ve performed at the cave, I’d like to try creating smaller versions of our final project (timeline/network analysis) from what we already have. This would allow us to ensure that we’re collecting data in a way that satisfies how the software we intend to use interprets data points. Doing so would also prevent us from having to rework all our data after we’ve completed the spreadsheet in the case that we need to greatly refine what we’ve built.