projects.garysmith.me/average-certificate

The Most Average Certificate

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HTML, CSS

In 2020, at the start of COVID, I had the opportunity to digitize hundreds of family history documents, including dozens of certificates dating back to the 1920s. Upon further investigation, I found just over 100 certificates, ranging widely in their characteristics. This project is an attempt to further investigate and visualize this range in character and compile "average" elements of each characteristic into "The Most Average Certificate." [Completed as a final project for Princeton Class FRS174: Drawing Data. Extra special thanks to my professor, Tim Szetela for his terrific inspiration and critiques]