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Different Aids for Different Days: What I mean when I say I “walk and roll”
These are the mobility aids I have acquired over the years. I give this info because they have served me well, not because they are the best product for every person, best products, least expensive products, etc. They are simply the products I have found work for me and were available at the time I…
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Two Approaches to COVID Safety, Depicted Two Ways
This scenario was a response to several encounters on Twitter involving women who were extremely well regarded in their respective [credentialed] expert fields. It began as a digital pencil sketch. I recently had another of these encounters, and exhausted/angry/frustrated I returned to my sketch, adding digital oil paint overlay. One scene, two ways, more than…
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Sociological Grand Theories of Culture, Society, and Self
Lecture covering sociological grand theories of culture, self, and society, including theories by Simmel, Mead, Habermas, and Giddens. Adapted from a lecture originally created for a Spring 2021 “Development of Sociological Theory” undergraduate course.
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Neighboring Backyards, Spring
Landscape series, digital “oil on canvas” panting inspired by neighboring backyards in North Georgia beginning to bloom for Spring.
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Analyzing Tweets: A Tidy Approach to Basic Analyses in R with Quanteda and ggplot2
This tutorial walks through the steps of executing basic word frequency analyses on text data that have already been prepared for analysis. The tutorial demonstrates a tidy approach using Quanteda and ggplot2 to analyze tweets collected with the twitteR package in R.
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Downloading and Preparing Tweets for Analysis with the twitteR package in R
twitteR query example 03/13/2023 In This Tutorial: 1 These packages are useful for collecting Twitter data. The following example will only use tidyverse and twitteR. 2 To follow along starting with Twitter data collection, you will need the following: 3 Step 1: Setup the connection to Twitter through your app using the “twitteR” package 4…
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Marsh on a Cloudy Spring Day
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COVID-19 Google Topic Trends, with Widgets
I began with a simple exploration of the trends for the query (keyword) “covid” between January 1, 2020, and March 9, 2023, capturing a majority of the pandemic leading up to mid-March 2023.
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Lakeside Docks
Digital “oil on canvas” painting of a small boat docked in front of some old buildings.
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The Breaking Period: Follow-Up
Just over a week ago, I wrote about the uniquely horrified and yet unsurprised understanding held by disabled people who predicted this watching the pandemic “breaking point” (aka breaking period). Early this week, I got news that the breaking period had graced our close friend group—and it was anything but graceful. The breaking period crashed…
Medical Sociology on Wheels
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