Announcements

• NIH Human Subjects Training
• Agenda for Viacom visit
• AP data update: experience levels
• Phase 1 resubmissions

Agenda

• Good vis exercise
• Bad vis exercise
• Break
• Color discussion
• Open discussion

Next Week’s Assignments

• Start your Phase 3 assignment and post an update to your blog.
• Straighten out any issues around meeting the quota of blog posts for Phase 1. Contact me if needed.
• Straighten out any issues around meeting the quota of blog posts for Phase 2. Contact me if needed.
• Straighten out any issues regarding absences, lateness, and extra credit. Contact me if needed.
• Happy Thanksgiving!

Announcements

• Please fill out this 2-question survey to help prepare the agenda for our visit to Viacom on December 7.
• Please fill out this 3-question survey to help with room booking for our last day of class.
• If you haven’t already, I strongly suggest that you share your Phase 2 paper with your community partner.
• For students who want to work with AP data: The AP_VR MoCap data folder has been updated with BVH-formatted files, which may be useful for (three.js) web visualizations. The folder already has FBX and CSV formats as well.

Agenda

• Phase 2 Presentations. We will start at the top of the class blog list and go in alphabetical order. 5-7 minutes per person, please!

Next Week’s Assignments

• For the month of November, as you start to plan your Phase 3 projects, we will get back to basics and discuss what makes an effective visualization. To prepare for this, please write a blog post that
  • discusses one visualization that you think is effective, and why
  • discusses one visualization that you think is ineffective, and why.

Announcements

While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today.

• Data Services Research Day celebration at NYU is coming up.  Please invite your colleagues and students to participate in this event, submit an entry for visualization competition, and spread the word.

Agenda

• Viacom field trip on Dec 7: Would you like to receive feedback on your work?
• Books for Phase 2
• Studio time. Group with others who are exploring the same community partner and data sets.

Next Week’s Assignments

• Prepare your Phase 2 Paper and Presentation. Be ready to give a 5-7 minute presentation on your Phase2 project next week.
  

Announcements

While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today.

• Job opportunity: Educational Data Analyst at BrainPOP.
• NYCDH Graduate Student Awards
• Nicholas Belmonte from Uber Visualization (past event at ITP)

• Data Services Research Day celebration at NYU is coming up.  Please invite your colleagues and students to participate in this event, submit an entry for visualization competition, and spread the word.

Agenda

• Kevin Miklasz, BrainPOP
  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1KM70jlEfvpbUxMUlFmM0xUa0U
  • More on R Tutorial here.
  • Want more R? Here’s a sample R script using Marvel comics data.
• Break
• Check-ins
• Arlene Ducao, Multimer

Next Week’s Assignments

• Review the Phase 2 Requirements. Be ready to discuss your Phase 2 plans next week. We will discuss books and workshop any issues you may have for your Phase 2 project.
  

Phase 2 Paper. Full draft due November 9. (Final paper due in Phase 3)

Note: Keywords are highlighted in orange. 

Please write a 1250+ word research article, creative nonfiction, or ethnography (series of interviews) that critically examines issues faced by your community partner in the process of data visualization. If you need a community partner, consider the list of confirmed community partners for the class.

1. What are the questions they are researching or investigating with data?
2. What are their issues in collecting the data?
3. What are their issues in cleaning the data?
4. What are their issues in understanding the data?
5. Are there historical precedents for this kind of work with data? For this, please explore and cite at least one of the books from the “Historical/Foundational” section of the course-reserved books (see syllabus).
6. What kinds of data visualizations can help them? What kinds of visualizations can’t help them? For this, it may help to explore the books in the “Technique/Science” section of the course reserves (see syllabus).
7. Please provide possible vis sketches and/or notes from your exchanges with your community partner. Keep in mind that some community partners may have limited time to work with you. Plan accordingly!
8. If applicable, please integrate your thoughts on speakers and/or site visits so far.
9. Please draft an MLA-formatted bibliography for the books, articles, web sites, site visits, speakers, and other sources that you cite. Please use at least three sources, including one of the course reserves.

Announcements

While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today.

• Talk at The Frick Collection on Tuesday, October 17 for a lecture at 4 p.m. by Dr. Paul Jaskot, Professor of Art History and Director of the Wired! Lab, Duke University. Prof. Jaskot’s presentation will address how Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust thought of their building projects and, conversely, how victims experienced these oppressive spaces. The lecture also explores how recent methods in Digital Humanities—particularly digital mapping—can be used to investigate architectural plans and witness testimonies to raise new questions about the historical significance of the Holocaust. For additional information, please visit: http://www.frick.org/research/digital_art_history_lab_lectures.
• Metrolex Meetups:The Dictionary Society of North America has partnered with local organizations in the New York City area to establish a series of meetups called MetroLex. MetroLex meetups bring together lexicographers, linguists, technologists, educators, and other language professionals to share research and projects relating to dictionary technology, dictionary use, language documentation, semantic ontologies, and lexicography.
• Text-as-Data/NLP Speaker Series
  19-Oct Claire Cardie (Cornell)
  NYU-based researchers and students: If you are interested in meeting with any of the speakers, please contact Leslie Huang at LH1036@nyu.edu (the sooner the better!).
  Please feel free to share this email with interested colleagues or invite them to sign up for our mailing list via our website: https://cds.nyu.edu/text-data-speaker-series/
• Job opportunity: Educational Data Analyst at BrainPOP.

Agenda

• Quick check-ins,
• Farhan Mustafa + team, Grafiti.
• Break
• Lenina Nadal, Global Action Project.

Next Week’s Assignments

• Finish and post your report on the NYSCI assignment. Please complete the NYSCI activity by October 19. If you want to go to NYSCI on October 19, let me know so I can arrange for admission.
• Please email a quick update with your progress in choosing and connecting with a community partner.
• Optional: If you’d like to make any changes to your Phase 1 project and resubmit, this week would be a good time to do so!
• Reminder: If you have any additional questions or need some tech time, please do be in touch about office hours or a web chat.

Announcements

While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today.

• Associated Press VR Immersive Media Report:
  http://bit.ly/2wTY9kG
• Metrolex Meetups:The Dictionary Society of North America has partnered with local organizations in the New York City area to establish a series of meetups called MetroLex. MetroLex meetups bring together lexicographers, linguists, technologists, educators, and other language professionals to share research and projects relating to dictionary technology, dictionary use, language documentation, semantic ontologies, and lexicography.
• Text-as-Data/NLP Speaker Series
  19-Oct Claire Cardie (Cornell)
  NYU-based researchers and students: If you are interested in meeting with any of the speakers, please contact Leslie Huang at LH1036@nyu.edu (the sooner the better!).
  Please feel free to share this email with interested colleagues or invite them to sign up for our mailing list via our website: https://cds.nyu.edu/text-data-speaker-series/
• Job opportunity: NYU admissions ambassadors
  The application is due on October 16th
  https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MnWltXfcEBRMrz

Agenda

• Phase 1 Projects: we will work backwards through the class blogs!

Next Week’s Assignments

• Remember the NYSCI assignment. Please complete the NYSCI activity sometime between September 21 and October 19.

Announcements

While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today.

• Associated Press VR Immersive Media Report:
  http://bit.ly/2wTY9kG
• Metrolex Meetups:The Dictionary Society of North America has partnered with local organizations in the New York City area to establish a series of meetups called MetroLex. MetroLex meetups bring together lexicographers, linguists, technologists, educators, and other language professionals to share research and projects relating to dictionary technology, dictionary use, language documentation, semantic ontologies, and lexicography.
• Text-as-Data/NLP Speaker Series
  19-Oct Claire Cardie (Cornell)
  NYU-based researchers and students: If you are interested in meeting with any of the speakers, please contact Leslie Huang at LH1036@nyu.edu (the sooner the better!).
  Please feel free to share this email with interested colleagues or invite them to sign up for our mailing list via our website: https://cds.nyu.edu/text-data-speaker-series/
• Job opportunity: NYU admissions ambassadors
  The application is due on October 16th
  https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MnWltXfcEBRMrz
• IDM + Clive Davis Institute Mixer
  Next Friday, we are hosting a student mixer with Clive Davis (CDI). The event will be Friday, October 6th from 6PM – 8PM in the MAGNET Lecture Hall. Signup here.

Agenda

• Quick check-ins
• Taylor Nakagawa, Associated Press.
• Pan Pan, Data Vis 2016 student.
• Extended check-ins. Be ready to discuss your dataset.

Next Week’s Assignments

• Phase I project due next week. Requirements posted here.
  • Feel free to e-mail me next week with questions.
• Remember the NYSCI assignment. Please complete the NYSCI activity sometime between September 21 and October 19.

Phase 1 Project, due October 5

Note: Keywords are highlighted in orange. 

Develop a polished, accessible interactive visualization(s) of a pre-approved dataset for a general audience with no previous knowledge of the data. CHECKLIST:

• Dataset approved: You must receive approval to use the dataset by September 30 OR use a dataset from the class’s pre-approved list.
• Accessible: Anyone (namely, your instructor) must be able to interact with your visualization outside of class. Please provide a link from your blog. No screenshots!
  • If the visualization uses HTML/Javascript, please post it either on a standalone web page or on a code playground like JSFiddle or Codepen. Embed the visualization in your blog (see example here), or include the link in a blog post.
  • If your visualization is hosted by a cloud site (ie ArcGIS cloud), make sure that you modify permissions so that the public can view it.
  • If the visualization is not online, please send me the files, application links, and/or materials I need to interact with the visualization offsite. Please do this by October 4 at 11am.
  • If the visualization is physical (i.e. uses physical computing), e-mail me.
• Polished: include keys, colors, annotations, and other relevant information to show and explain patterns in the data that can only be understood through your project.
• Explainable: include introductory text and titles so that a general user has all the information she/he needs to engage with and understand the visualization without further explanation.
• Presentable: Be prepared to talk the class through a 4-5 minute demonstration of your visualization, followed by 3-4 minutes of Q&A. Please remember to link to all materials from your blog.

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
    • Chronicling America 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.