Data Vis Session 2: Books, Tools, Sheets, Queries.

Announcements and Links

  • Groups
  • Next week: NYSCI ideation, lit review exercise
  • Punctuality and assignments

Agenda

  • 6:30-7:00- Book Club
  • 7:00-8:00- Lecture: Data Vis Toolbox
  • 8:00-8:10- Break
  • 8:00-8:45- Review of class blogs
  • 8:45-9:15: Discussion of spreadsheet functions and database queries
  • 9:15-9:20- Next Week’s Assignments

Notes

The full Socrata/SODA/SoQL tutorial is now up! Please use it to complete the assignments below.

Next Two Week’s Assignments

  • Data Acquisition, required by September 17. Expand the NYC Open Data exercise by looking at December 2014, the month of protests around Eric Garner’s death. Post or send me a CSV with the following attributes:
    • data source: NYC Open Data
    • time period: December 2014
    • CSV size: smaller than 1 MB, if you’re e-mailing it
  • Blog Post, required by September 17. Write a short blog post that contains a link to your CSV if possible, discusses your process, and explains your observations. Also, discuss other data sources you’d like to explore in future classes. Also, post a visualization if you get that far!
  • Visualization, required by September 24. Use Socrata’s example page and the D3 site to start turning your dataset into a simple visualization. If you don’t get that far on the visualization part, that’s ok! We will do a deep dive with these technologies on September 24.
    • If you’re having trouble deciding what to visualize, just try making a simple bar chart of NYC data in December 2014.