• Course enrollment & waitist
• Course Instructors:
  • Alan Liu
  • Leila Stegemoeller

Plan for today’s class: Introduction to course

Main course website:

• Schedule page: https://alanyliu.org/courses/english-146ds-2023-winter/schedule/
• Overview page: https://alanyliu.org/course/english-146ds-data-stories-theory-and-practice-of-data-driven-narratives-in-the-digital-age-winter-2023/
• [Or navigate to course site from English dept. website]
• Password needed for some “Class Notes” pages  (like the one you are seeing now)

Canvas site:

https://ucsb.instructure.com/courses/2824

Context and Idea of the Course

• Data Science at UCSB
  • UCSB Data Science Initiative
  • Data Science Summit at UCSB (Dec. 3, 2021)
    • Alan’s short talk at summit: “Where Does Data Science Fit in a Liberal Arts University?”
• Proposed UCSB Data Science major

  

• “Digital Humanities”
  • “Map of DH”
• “Data Stories”
  • Examples —
    • “Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes — The Joy of Stats” (BBC Four video, 2010)
    • Matthew C. Klein, “How Americans Die,” Bloomberg.com, April 17, 2014.
    • Previous English 146DS projects (examples)
      • 2021: 1 | 2 | 3 
      • 2022: 1 | 2

Readings are on course Schedule page

• Readings (all readings are online)
  • Course bibliography (cumulative & for each class)
  • Readings for next class
    • For discussion in next class: Which do you think is the best data story?

Assignments are on course Schedule page

• Solo assignments (60% of final grade)
  • An analysis of a narrative due in Class 4 (10%).
  • A pair of spreadsheets of data due in Class 9 (10% of final grade)
  • A “datasheet report” due in Class 13 (10% of final grade)
  • A final 3-page essay due by 11:59 pm on March 14th, 2021 (20% of final grade)
  • Participation grade (10%)
• Team project: data narrative (40% of final grade)
• Course Policies

• “Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes — The Joy of Stats” (BBC Four video, 2010)
  • Also see analysis of the video by Anjali Sharma