| Finding and telling stories with data |
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Introduction
- Fill out the application for enrollment
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Course overview & asking questions
- Course overview
- Crit practice
- What is climate change data?
- Do a data sculpture
- Review homework
- WTFcsv question brainstorming activity
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Lecture 1 slides (PDF - 1.3MB)
Lecture 1 notes (PDF)
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Course overview & asking questions (contd.) |
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Getting and cleaning data
- Review data logs, data storage and cleanliness
- Grad students present open data papers
- How the web works
- Defining the tools space, tool demos
- Homework review and prep
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Lecture 2 slides (PDF - 1.3MB)
Lecture 2 notes (PDF)
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Analyzing data
- Basic statistics
- Grad reading presentation
- Tool demonstrations
- WordCounter story-finding activity
- A taxonomy of story types
- Homework prep
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Lecture 3 slides (PDF - 2.1MB)
Lecture 3 notes (PDF - 1.1MB)
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Telling a data-driven story
- Critique practice
- Grad reading presentation
- Talk about readings
- A taxonomy of techniques
- Remix activity
- Homework prep
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Lecture 4 slides (PDF - 2.2MB)
Lecture 4 notes (PDF - 1.3MB)
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| Sketch 1: Charts and creative charts |
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Overview
- Inspirational examples
- Viz Zoo activity
- Tool demos
- Project datasets
- Group forming
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Lecture 5 slides (PDF - 1.5MB)
Lecture 5 notes (PDF)
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Studio (in-class work time)
- Grad reading presentation
- Reading review
- Open work time for your group
- Each group has a 5–10 minute check-in with Rahul for questions and advice
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Presentations and discussion
- Present sketches for critique
- Assign next grad reading presentations
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| Sketch 2: Data sculptures |
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Overview
- Readings review
- Inspirational examples
- Physical visualization review activity
- Tools and techniques, datasets
- Group forming
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Lecture 6 slides (PDF - 1.2MB)
Lecture 6 notes (PDF)
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Studio (in-class work time)
- Open work time for your group
- Each group has a 5–10 minute check-in with Rahul for questions and advice
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Presentations and discussion
- Present sketches for critique
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| Sketch 3: Personal stories |
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Overview
- Storytelling pair & share
- Readings review
- Examples, tools & techniques, datasets
- Group forming
- Word-web activity (supplies: big papers and markers)
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Lecture 7 slides (PDF)
Lecture 7 notes (PDF)
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Studio (in-class work time)
- Open work time for your group
- Each group has a 5–10 minute check-in with Rahul for questions and advice
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Optional: evening round-table with Emerson College and Northeastern University students
- Share with undergraduate and graduate students taking a very similar course in a journalism school. See and react to their projects, and share your own projects for feedback or collaborative brainstorming on how it might turn into a final project for this course.
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Presentations and discussion
- Present sketches for critique
- Assign next grad reading presentations
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| Sketch 4: Participatory data games |
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Overview
- Inspirational examples
- Readings, tools, datasets
- Team-forming
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Lecture 8 slides (PDF)
Lecture 8 notes (PDF)
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Studio (in-class work time)
- Open work time for your group
- Each group has a 5–10 minute check-in with Rahul for questions and advice
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Presentations and discussion
- Present sketches for critique
- Pick who will do Tableau and who will do CartoDB tutorials
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| Sketch 5: Maps and creative maps |
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Overview
- Fundamental concepts
- Sharing activity
- Inspirational examples
- Tools, datasets and team-forming
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Lecture 9 slides (PDF - 1.9MB)
Lecture 9 notes (PDF)
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Studio (in-class work time)
- Open work time for your group
- Each group has a 5–10 minute check-in with Rahul for questions and advice
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Presentations and discussion
- Present sketches for critique
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| Final project studio |
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Group forming
- Group work time
- Review homework
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Mentor feedback and studio (in-class work time)
- Short intro to assessing impact (logic models, pre/post interview, interviews)
- Work in your final project groups
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Studio (in-class work time)
- Review the final project requirements
- Work in your final project groups, consult with Rahul
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Final project presentations and discussion
- Each group has 10 minutes to present their final project and discuss it
- Fill in the course evaluation
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