Sense & Scale | A site to explore cities, machines, and people at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, CUNY, MIT and more.

NYU D&T #18 ☑️ Checkpoint & Ethical Data Wrap-Up ✅

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways are on break again… will definitely return later in November. Want to hear more about Sylvia Sylvia? Check out tonight’s webinar. Agenda Wrap-up: A deeper dive on histories in Ethical Data Collection. Useful links from NYU Data Services: NYU Data Sources ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) The next 3 sessions will be remote. See D&T […]

NYU D&T #17 🚌💨 Field Trip to Bobst 📚

Today: Meet at Bobst by 2:30! You can go to Bobst with me from 6 Metrotech on the 1:55 NYU shuttle (arrive to 715 Broadway at 2:17). You can do your participation check-in during the ride. If you can’t get the 1:55 shuttle, please go on your own, but be sure to arrive to Data Services, Bobst 5th Floor, […]

NYU D&T #16 🦜More Research Tips 💽 More on Ethical Data Collection

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways are taking a break today. Interesting Events/Orgs/Opps Interesting quiz from the Action Zone bystander training: What is your Bystander Intervention Personality? PEN America: More Media Literacy guides Resource packet (Google link to PDF) PEN America Media Literacy program page PEN America’s Media Literacy Toolkit For folks researching human trafficking + […]

NYU D&T #15 🖼️📋 Tables/Images 📈📊 More on Ethical Data Collection

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways Interesting Events/Orgs/Opps NYU Female Founders Fellowship of up to $50K: Info Session 1 and 2 Webinar @ Cooper Union: Panel on Blockchain currency NYC Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt NYU Relaxation Oasis (part of Wellness Services) Simply Secure: The Limits of Digital Consent (whitepaper) Coming soon: a few more resources […]

D&T calendar

After reviewing the calendar please share feedback if you’d like to see something changed. Thanks! 🗓️🗓️ 10/28: Gowanus or Borough Hall walk (weather permitting) 11/2: Visit to Bobst. We will meet @ Tandon and take the shuttle. 11/4: Gowanus or Borough Hall walk (weather permitting) 11/9: Remote: Fishbowl discussions. I’ll chat with you and your […]

D&T: Top Topics 🧏🏽🧏🏿🧏

Now that I’ve taught D&T for a few years (and have spent decades thinking about D&T 🙃), here are some of the top topics that come up again and again for many kinds of experiences in many kinds of D&T fields. I will start fleshing these out into resource guides… during and after this semester. […]

NYU D&T #14 😷💉 Microaggressions, Tables/Images

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways Current upcoming class activity dates: Probably Tuesday: Gowanus (infrastructure), weather allowing More frequent remote classes in November/December Midterm checkpoint: today! Your total word count will be around 3300-3600. Please see the syllabus for the grading rubric. I’ll start reading today and will comment after reading all drafts. I’ll using this […]

NYU D&T #13 🤏🤏🏾 Microaggressions, Tables/Images

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways Current upcoming class activity dates: 10/21: Remote class with “Human Subjects” training 10/26 or 10/28: Gowanus (infrastructure), weather allowing 11/02: Visit to Bobst 11/9 or 11/11: Borough Hall (politics), weather allowing 11/16: Remote Environmental and Racial Justice conference 11/23: Visit to Dibner 12/02: Remote VPL make-a-thon 12/07 or 12/09: […]

NYU D&T #12 🦚 Patterns, MIL, Schematics

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways! NYU Library has lots of video access Upcoming events in flux. Current plans: 10/21: Remote class with Microaggressions training 11/02: Visit to Bobst. 11/16: Visit to Dibner 12/2: VPL make-a-thon. 12/7: Emojis? Attend the NYU Environmental and Racial Justice conference on Nov 16? Midterm: I won’t be grading for […]

NYU D&T #11: VPL 🧫🎭 BK Navy Yard 🎖️

Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways! No class next Tuesday 10/12 Quick show of hands please: Dibner: archives only? Or stacks + archives? Bobst: Avery Fischer Center? Data Services? Update: Questions on a particular part of your paper? Email me with a bookmark link (don’t @me in a comment) Interesting sites, orgs and events Indigenous […]