5  Advanced Spatial Visualization - Part 2

Settling In

Sit with whoever you want today.

You will be working in groups to find project partners.

Data Storytelling Moment

Go to http://www.storiesbehindaline.com/

  • What is the data story?
  • What is effective?
  • What could be improved?





Finding Project Partners

Today we will work on finding project partners.

Let’s look at the project overview.

Open the following Google Doc

Brainstorm

Spend about 5-10 minutes:

  • Under Brainstorming, copy the template for a project idea (topic, question, data sources).
  • Write up to 2-3 project ideas, without your name, in the document.

When you’ve written at least 2 ideas, continue working on HW2 and you could start HW3, if you’ve finished HW2.

Categorize

When directed by the instructor,

  • Open the following Google Doc. Go to the Section of Project Categories.
  • Copy the Category template below.
  • As a table, find 2-3 ideas that seem to be related.
  • Copy/Paste the idea text so within the Category.
  • Change the header to an informative category name to the group of ideas.
  • Don’t add your names to any categories yet.

Indicate Interest

  • Open the following Google Doc. Go to the Section of Project Categories.

  • Add your name to the project idea category you are interested in working on. You can add your name to multiple categories.

  • If you feel strongly about working with someone, please let me know.

  • If working with someone would be a barrier to your learning, please email me (no reason needed).





Group Work

We’ll work on starting Homework 3 today.

There are two parts.

  • Part 1 introduces you to Census + shapefile data from the tidycensus package.
  • Part 2 involves working with very large spatial data, so you must think carefully about the computational efficiency of the tasks.





Reflect

Reflect on today about any of the following:

  • What was challenging and why?
  • What strategies, associations, insights helped things click today?





After Class

  • Start thinking concretely about your course project topic. Project Milestone 1 is coming up in few weeks.
    • Start looking for datasets to see what might be feasible. Think about who you would like to work with.
  • Take a look at the Schedule page to see how to prepare for the next class.
  • Finish Homework 2 and continue working on Homework 3.