Author: Yanyu Li

I really enjoyed my digital scholarship summer research fellowship experience. We learn something new everyday and form a clear sense of what digital scholarship is over the past 8 weeks. DH is an open, diverse, and collaborative platform. It encourages collectiveness and community. The instructors in the program embrace every new perspective and support any…

My experience at the Digital Scholarship was very pleasant. The morning session focused on how to make a presentation. I was really nervous about speaking in front of an audience. Although there were only a few of them, I was shaking while introducing my project. I know it takes practice and I need to work…

[I published this blog post on July 16, but it disappeared for some reason. This is the part that I can remember.] The session on July 12 was helpful for me. I received many encouraging comments such as good use of scalar, good choice of pictures, etc. I did not feel proud of my project…

The Digital Scholarship Summer Symposium at Lafayette College was a new experience for me. I had never presented at a symposium before, and I had no idea what it was like. I was nervous when I saw so many people at the event. Their projects were all very interesting to me, and they were very…

Challenges Time flies! It’s already the fifth week of digital scholarship research. I really enjoyed the learning of different tools and methods in the past few weeks. I feel like I can envision the end product of my project more clearly each day. One challenge I’ve encountered with my project is that I had no…

Tools/Methods for My Project After learning the digital tools and methods for the last two weeks, I choose three that work the best for my project. I will use text visualization tool “Tableau” to visualize the menu data. I will use TimelineJS to create a timeline starts from the 1850s, including the political decisions made…

Background Story I go to Bucknell University, which is located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In this small town, there are two Japanese restaurants owned by Chinese. The menus are a mix of Chinese and Japanese food. The distinctiveness between the two becomes ambiguous nowadays. It seems that Japanese and Chinese restaurants emerge into one “brand” under…

My project is about how Chinese food is affected by the political environment of American society. I want to do a comparison between large cities and small towns to see how the evolution trends differ. My goal is to generate more thoughts on how one culture adapts to another through looking at the evolution of…

Blog Post: week 1 I am interested in the Fellowship program because I have a research idea in mind, and I want it to bring awareness to a larger audience. Digital tools introduce many efficient ways of conducting a research. Through learning, I would discover methodologies to collect and organize data, as well as visualizing…