Friday, Lab
🪩 Highlights:
Ben Fry, and The process behind “Tracing the Origin”
📝 Lecture + In-class exercises:
Thursday, Studio
- Hear from Avi and Xinyi about Data Feminism and we discuss
- Today’s Notes
- Look at examples of data visualizations
- NYC Open Data activity
Homework
- Reading: The Adventures of an Avatar and Her Real Girl – Helen Gregory and write a discussion question. Ray and Jiyeon are our discussion leaders.
- Look through the available data sets on NYC Open Data, identify one data set that you would like to work with. Look through the data like we did in class with the New York City data today and identify three possible stories you would like to focus on. Communicate which data points you can use. Also, find a journalistic story that utilizes your data set. This can be housed in a google doc, Figma board, Dropbox Paper, or google slides.
Tuesday, Studio
- Finish Elastic Collections critique
- Introduce our third and final project, NYC in Data
- Today’s Notes
- Data visualization discussion and activity
Homework
- Reading: Data Feminism, Chapter 2 and write a discussion question. Uvi and Xinyi are our discussion leaders.
- For Thursday: Working exclusively with analog materials (pen, paper, crayons, stickers…) create your own handmade visualization. The visualization should highlight something you did this week through data. You can use any of the visualization examples we looked at today.