Announcements: Class

• Last chance: If you plan to present live today, please add your name to this list.
• PLEASE CHECK THAT I HAVE PERMISSION to access all of your final project documents (e.g. on Google). You’ll lose a 0.5 point for every document that I have to request permission for after this class.
• Three optional surveys:
  • Student Nominations: Please fill out if you’re open to you and/or your D&T course work being nominated for an award. (Some of these awards involve cash prizes.)
  • Feedback on the Green Zone training from 12/1
  • Feedback on the LGBTQ+ training from 12/3
• NYU LGBTQ+ Follow-Up resources:
  • Global inclusion terminology
  • LGBTQ+ Center info card
  • LGBTQ+ Resource Sheet
• If you enjoyed this class, please consider encouraging your NYU undergrad colleagues to take D&T in the spring. Also please consider Prof D’s Spring 2021 class: Making and Manufacturing as Sociocultural Practice. Thank you!

Agenda 

• Final Project Presentations.
  • Please be prepared to turn on video to give applause! ?????????????????????????????
  • Please also feel free to type questions/comments or additional emojis of support into the chat.

Assignments

• Due today at 4pm EST:
  • Please post all your Final Project draft materials to your blog. Make sure that you upload a video if you didn’t present today.
  • Reminder to share your slides (if you made any) and include image credits in your slides.
• Due on Wednesday, December 16 at 12pm EST: Please finalize all your materials:
  • Final Project
  • Phase 2 blog posts (thirteen posts in all) 
  • Any extra credit or resubmissions: please be sure to MARK these as resubmissions. If you’re resubmitting something from Phase 1, please make a new blog post since I don’t plan to re-download your Phase 1 materials.

Announcements: Extra Credit

• In addition to the links below, feel free to go back through all the previous extra credit opportunities. Thank you for taking this class, and good luck with finals!
  • Global Indigenous Lands Map shows the known indigenous lands for indigenous peoples on several continents.
  • “Nothing About Us Without Us is a phrase widely used within the disability community that might apply to many marginalized communities.
  • Forensic Architecture uses 3D, VR, and other new media technologies to reconstruct instances of mass injustice.

Opportunities

• Call for Applications: “Tech Tales: Films about digital rights in the Asia-Pacific”
• CMD-IT (Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT) Virtual Career Fair, February 2021
• NASA JPL / Caltech / Art Center visualization internship, a multi-disciplinary program for computer scientists and designers. We use visualization to understand the universe. [datavis.caltech.edu]
  • WHEN  June 14 – August 20, 2021 (to be confirmed)WHERE  OnlinePAY  $7.3K for undergraduates, $9K for graduate students
  • ELIGIBILITY  Applicants must be continuing students. Students graduating before fall 2021 are not eligible to apply. STUDENTS MUST BE US CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS. GPA must be >= 3.0
  • WE ARE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A DIVERSE TEAM. We welcome applications from groups that are historically minoritized in computer science and design including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled people and women.
  • APPLICATIONS  via bit.ly/datavis21-interns; including resume (PDF), portfolio (if relevant), and answers to the following:_ Why do you want to work in visualization?_ What are your technical skills? What visualization experience do you have?_ What are your experiences working in teams? Experience working with scientists?
  • INFO SESSION  Monday December 14th 3PM-EST/12PM-PST bit.ly/datavis21-info-session
  • DEADLINE   Accepting applications now until February 9, 2021 [CS applicants] and March 8, 2021 [DESIGN applicants], or until positions are filled.
  • Questions? Email datavis@caltech.edu
• Research Assistant (NYC History), Brown Brothers Collection Position Overview: The Brown Brothers Collection is a collaborative, cross-institutional research project supported by a seed grant from the NYU Center for the Humanities and Research Technology, NYU IT, that will develop robust teaching, research, and digital / public humanities resources that leverage the digitized Brown Brothers & Company archives held by the New York Public Library, a key set of sources for New York City’s financial history. The project is seeking a graduate, or advanced undergraduate research assistant to join the team for its use-case pilot phase. The assistant will conduct research related to the history of financial data, accounting practices, banking in 19th-century New York, and slave economies. As part of this phase, you’ll have the opportunity to work on an interdisciplinary team comprising both humanists and data / machine learning specialists. Learn more here.