{"id":1072,"date":"2016-09-08T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:02:52","slug":"data-vis-2016-session-1-intros-histories-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Data Vis 2016 Session 1: Intros, Histories, Tools."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Announcements<\/h2>\n<h3>While you&#8217;re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at\u00a0the links as food for thought.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Example\u00a0Vis:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracker.geops.ch\/?z=2&amp;s=1&amp;x=190733.9206&amp;y=3795612.8085&amp;l=transport\">Transit Visualization Client<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findtheconversation.com\/concept-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conversation Concept Map<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pantheon.media.mit.edu\/treemap\/country_exports\/NZ\/all\/-4000\/2010\/H15\/pantheon\" target=\"_blank\">MIT ML Pantheon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Example\u00a0Data Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu\/data\/sets\/browse?contains=new+york\" target=\"_blank\">Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nycopendata.socrata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Open Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Example application of data visualization: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/next-america\/#Two-Dramas-in-Slow-Motion\" target=\"_blank\">The Next America<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/explore\/science-bulletins\/(watch)\/astro\/documentaries\/aiming-high-the-search-for-high-energy-cosmic-rays\" target=\"_blank\">The Search for High Energy Cosmic Rays<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Example Tutorials: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacamp.com\/courses\">DataCamp, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lynda.com\">Lynda.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More visualizations: <a href=\"http:\/\/dataphys.org\/list\/\" target=\"_blank\">List of Physical Visualizations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Agenda<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/?p=421\">Syllabus<\/a> Explanation\/Discussion<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Introductions<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B1KM70jlEfvpUjhtd1NvaFU1WkE\">Next Week&#8217;s Assignments<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Lecture: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B1KM70jlEfvpMDc1YkVfTzBKOU0\" target=\"_blank\">A Brief History of Data Visualization, <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B1KM70jlEfvpT3FSZzEzVkFaMDA\">Data Vis Toolbox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Next Week&#8217;s Assignments<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BLOG: <\/strong>If you don&#8217;t have a blog already, set one up. Send me the blog URL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>POST:\u00a0<\/strong>Prepare and post a slideshow that shows your potential toolkit (aka tech stack) for class. Phase 1 will be about exploring and solidifying your toolkit. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B1KM70jlEfvpUjhtd1NvaFU1WkE\/view\">assignment slideshow<\/a> for &#8220;buffet&#8221; ideas. The slideshow should contain at least these slides:\n<ul>\n<li>names of your potential tools<\/li>\n<li>justification of your choice<\/li>\n<li>tool history and sociology<\/li>\n<li>use cases and examples<\/li>\n<li>constraints \/ challenges<\/li>\n<li>discuss your tutorial process (see below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>TUTORIAL: <\/strong>Go through at least 1 tutorial for your tool(s). Be ready to discuss as part of your slideshow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcements While you&#8217;re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at\u00a0the links as food for thought. Example\u00a0Vis:\u00a0Transit Visualization Client, Conversation Concept Map, MIT ML Pantheon Example\u00a0Data Source: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), NYC Open Data Example application of data visualization: The Next America,\u00a0The Search for High Energy Cosmic Rays, ProPublica Data Example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyu-datavis","category-nyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arlduc.org\/senseandscale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}