Class Business
Recent data project instructors worked on together: WhatEvery1Says (WE1S)
- Course enrollment & waitist
- Course Instructors:
Plan for today’s class: Introduction to course
- UCSB English Department’s Transcriptions Center for Digital Humanities & New Media
- English Dept. Literature & Culture of Information (LCI) specialization
- LCI courses
Course Materials
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:
Introduction to the Course
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
Emphasis areas in UCSB Data Science Major proposal (proposal document, March 9, 2020)
- “Digital Humanities”
- “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)
- Examples —
Readings
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
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 Data Narrative
- “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
