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Workshop 4

The 1919 race riots were deadly but were not mass killings. Of the 40 deaths given in this dataset, there is always one victim who is murdered. This implies that it was likely a group of African Americans facing off with a group of Whites, the two groups probably had…

Workshop 5

How I went about doing this: Actions taken: I deleted: DAGE APPTIME EXCTTIME OFFDEATH HOSPNAME PLBUS VDPLBUS RESIDNCE PUBPLACE MEDICAL MURDSUIC VDRELAT PRECINCT DEMPLOY DEMPTYPE DMEDICAL DVFAMILY CONFESS TCARRST CRSCENE DCORONR COROUT BAILSET DGRJURY INDICT DSTRIAL DSENT TJUDGE LCOURT TOUTCOME WSENT LSENTNC SENTCOMP RETRIAL JUDGEREV COURTREV EXECUTE DEXECUTE TEXECUTE COMMUTE…

Workshop 2

Chicago’s River flows backwards because the city was undergoing huge typhoid and cholera outbreaks due to their incredibly poor sanitation management. This sanitation management, or lack thereof, caused them to just dump all of their waste into the Chicago river which polluted it so heavily in human waste that they…

Blog Post #5

Harrison’s Chicago Race Riots provides an interesting narrative into why the Chicago Race Riots happened, but there’s little to actually back it up. An initial claim is that there were roving bands of whites and blacks terrorizing the other race, which with the Chicago Homicide data, seems to match up…

Blog Post #4

Like Johnson’s article mentions, the homicide database is biased. The victims information are not usually filled out completely, unless they’re police officers. We can tell where the interests of the Chicago Police Department lie with what they record. They record the full information about police officers, usually the full information…

Blog Post #3

I found it hard to tell an interesting story about my life this past week because the life of a college student is probably one of the most uninteresting things I could imagine. So, attempting to turn something mindbogglingly boring into something that is actually interesting is not exactly my…

Workshop 3

Here is my timeline If this does not work I really don’t know what’s wrong, I’ve checked the HTML and it should work fine. It works perfectly in the preview, but the actual integration into the site doesn’t seem to want to function correctly. I’ve tried it multiple times with…