Announcements
While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today.
- Prepping for the Library of Congress case study
- Julia Kim’s article about the Storycorps collection
- Storycorps Sample Data (JSON files)
- Storycorps access repository
- Similar Example: LC Data Exploration repository
- Tools
- Jupyter NB viewer (for ipynb files)
- Tableau Public (if you want to follow along today)
Agenda
- Intro: Substitute Professor Dixie Ching
- Student Toolkit: brief presentations (from student blogs)
- Case Study: Library of Congress Storycorps collection. Guest Speaker: Julia Kim.
Next Week’s Assignments
- No Class Next Week, September 21. Please complete the NYSCI activity sometime between September 21 and October 19.
- Start Visualizing. Use the toolkit you’re building to start visualizing data to show on September 28.
- Please post screenshots or a link from your blog.
- Please use one of the class’s pre-approved datasets or e-mail me to get approval for another data set of your choice.
- You can use this assignment to start working towards your first full visualization, which will be due on October 5. (You can see last year’s Phase 1 Project Grading Criteria here, which will be similar to this year’s criteria. Some of the visualization tutorials need to be updated.)
- Feel free to e-mail me next week with questions.