MAS.784
Data Storytelling Studio: Climate Change
Spring 2017
Topics
- Introduction
- Course overview & asking questions
- Course overview & asking questions (contd.)
- Getting and cleaning data
- Analyzing data
- Telling a data-driven story
- Overview
- Studio (in-class work time)
- Presentations and discussion
- Optional: evening round-table with Emerson College and Northeastern University students
- Studio (in class work time)
- Group forming
- Mentor feedback, studio (in class work time)
- Final project presentations and discussion
Readings
- Veltman, N. “Scraping the web.” School of Data, November 2013.
- DeBarros, A. “Excel: Extract text with FIND and MID.” on data, code & product [blog], October 9, 2012.
- Edward R. Tufte. “Graphical Excellence.” Chapter 1 in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information . 2nd edition. Graphics Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781930824133. pp 13-52
- McCloud, S. “Vocabulary of Comics.” Chapter 2 in Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art . William Morrow Paperbacks, 1994. ISBN: 9780060976255
- Blair, J. A. “The Rhetoric of Visual Arguments.” Chapter 2 in Defining Visual Rhetorics . Lawrence Erlbaum, 2014. ISBN: 9780805844023. pp. 41-61.
- boyd, d. “What World Are We Building?" Data and Society: Points , January 2016.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.