Announcements and Links

• New books and blogs
• Storefront for Art and Architecture show
• Visualized Conference
• Open Society / Knight Challenge
• Codepen and JSFiddle
• Networks in Equity and Sustainability

Agenda

• 6:30-7:15: Discussion of NYC Open Data query assignment.
• 7:15-8:00: Catherine Cramer lecture + Q&A
• 8:00-8:10: Break
• 8:10-9:20: Visualization Design Activity:
  • 8:10-8:15: Individual brainstorming (with post-its, etc).
  • 8:15-8:30: Idea forming in small groups. Diagramming on bigger sheets of paper.
  • 8:30-8:45: Literature search to validate and provide background
• 8:45-9:20: Brief Presentations

Notes

• From Catherine Cramer:
  • Presentation deck
  • Teaching Network Literacy
  • NetSci High
  • Design Make Play book (and articles that cite it)
• WHO themes
• Tomorrow, I’ll post a tutorial, based on Mike Bostock’s bar chart tutorial, on how to make a bar chart using NYC Open Data.

Next Week’s Assignments

• Blog Post 1, due Sept 24: Visualization of your NYC Open Data. Use Socrata’s example page, the D3 site, and Moment.js to turn your dataset into a simple visualization. You are welcome to use my bar chart tutorial to get started. Post a link to your vis on your blog. We will do a deep dive with these technologies next week.
• Blog Post 2, due Oct 1: Ideation sketches/pictures from the NYSCI “big data for little kids” exercise, a short bibliography (using MLA citation format) of your scholarly resources, and reflections on the activity. We will revisit this in two weeks.