We were able to make some practical, and sometimes exciting progress this week!

Leonard worked on some aesthetic details on the website including adding some jazzy imagery, fixing margins, and making page layouts function on both desktop and mobile devices.

Julissa has been posting away on Instagram and has an ambitious to post (almost) daily alternating between posts and stories in the countdown to our project launch. With Leonard’s help, Julissa began mentioning carousels in posts and both Prospect Park and Bryant Park took notice! We also started to to get on the radar of the GC Digital Humanities and Data Vis programs Instagram pages.

We’ve all been working on our individual blog posts for each carousel and are almost ready to link them to our map as a “more information” sort of thing. Speaking of the map, we did notice a display quirk with the layers and Carla is going to ask a GC Fellow for some advice. Carla suspects it may have something to do with the size of the map pin. Carla has also started to work on analysis of what we learned from the map, with an ambitious plan to maybe incorporate a visualization of some sort (but no pressure!).

Carla has also agreed to be our presenter, and I (Kelly) will be the backup. She’s going to do a great job representing our project- which just has a few finishing touches before showtime!