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A Time Traveling Rose

8/30/2020

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Right to Left: Rose and Dr. Don Lafreniere at Rose’s Graduation from MTU!
   Today we have reluctantly said farewell to a long time, Time Traveler, Rose. Rose has worked with KeTT since 2015.  Users may remember seeing her at the various festivals and public events we hosted over the years. She was a mentor for our high school GIS training program, GRACE, worked on our ‘schools-as-vectors for infectious disease’ project, and much more.
   Rose has moved on and up, now pursuing a MS in Geography in the Human Environments Analysis Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario. At HEAL Rose will be investigating the intersections of children’s health and the built environment.
   We would like to congratulate Rose on her new position, and hope she comes around to say hello once in a while. We bid you farewell on your adventures and may all your travels be timeless.
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Upgrades to the Explore App

8/4/2020

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Our team has been working behind the scenes for months to improve your experience in the Explore App. These functionality upgrades are just the beginning of a larger redesign that will be happening over the next 18 months. When COVID-19 in under control and we can host public design charrettes again, we will be asking you—our users—for feedback. But in the meantime, please try out the new functionalities and let us know what you think in the comments. 
​GLOBAL SEARCH
With this new version, searching for people, places, and stories will be a lot easier, as will sharing what you find on the Time Traveler. Instead of searching by Address, Person, Place, or Story, there will only be one search bar where you can search keywords in every category. 
Old Explore App search bar:
New Explore App search bar:
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Your search results will be reported in the categories of Buildings, People, Places, and Stories with parenthetical numbers to tell you how many results you got in each category. For instance, the results below appear after you enter "Smith" in the Global Search bar, which results in 195 people, 28 places (which includes businesses), and 13 stories. Clicking on any of these results will take you to that location on a map closest to the year of the record. 
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FILTER RESULTS
After you search for a person, place, or story, you see how many search results are in each decade. If you want, you can choose one or more decades to filter your results by time period. 
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You will also be able to filter your search results based on record type. Currently, only city directory and business directory data is available on the Explore App, but we are working hard to make more historical resources available in the coming year, including Census records, School records, and Mining Employee records.
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Lastly, you will also be able to filter results by their location. These locations should look familiar as they are based on the map locations you can explore in the app. In other words, if you don't want to see all 195 Smiths, you could choose to only see the Smiths in Lake Linden. 
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​SHARING SEARCH RESULTS​
One major upgrade introduced today is the ability to share your results with friends using a distinct web address. When you find a map and search results that you want to share, click the blue "Share" button to get a link that will take other users to exactly the search results and map view that you created. This way you can share an interesting building, person, or fun story on social media, in an email, or embed it on your own website! Just click on the blue Share button to get a shareable URL.
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SUMMARY OF OCCUPATIONS
Have you ever wanted to find a neighborhood where trammers worked and lived? Or are you looking for foundry workers or lumbermen? You can now see a pie chart of all the occupations for people living in the range of the map you are viewing. These occupations are as listed in the City Directories. These occupations and their percentages will change as you zoom and pan around the map, changing with what houses and people are in view. With this feature you can see how neighborhoods change throughout time and across towns. Below is the pie chart for a section of Calumet in the 1900s.
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Thank you to the students in Dr. Robert Pastel's computer science course who worked to build these new functionalities, especially Mason Sayles, who helped us implement it over Summer 2020.
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  • ABOUT THE PROJECT
    • About the Data >
      • About the Maps
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    • Behind the Scenes
    • Our Partners
    • Our Funders
    • Meet the Team
    • Citizen Historian Apps
    • Time Traveling Experiences
    • Publications
  • Upcoming Events
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