For your final project, you will work with a group to create a web-based mini-site that explores and analyzes a dataset from multiple angles. Your mini-site must contain the following components:<\/p>\n
Note: these projects are currently down. I do have them archived, but haven’t had a chance to put them on our server yet. In the meantime, check out the projects from 2015<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n Your visualizations should be enfolded into the narrative using the “splitting-a-sentence” strategy described by Alberto Cairo (and derived from Javier Zarracina) in these\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0videos<\/a>\u00a0(part 7<\/a>gives context;\u00a0part 8<\/a>\u00a0describes the strategy itself). You may divide the narrative among various pages of your mini-site if you like.<\/p>\n Like any satisfying narrative, yours should have a beginning, middle, and end, and a clear and coherent point. The writing need not be as formal as a typical academic paper but should be polished, grammatical, and contain no spelling or typographical errors. Imagine you’re writing for an intelligent, educated audience which is not an expert on the topic at hand. Remember that your audience could be reading lots of different things on the Web; you need to give them reasons to keep reading your narrative! Your narrative should include full citations, using either the MLA or Chicago format (be consistent) and linking to sources wherever possible.<\/p>\n Every web resource needs to be hosted on a\u00a0server<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in order for other people to access it. Your group will\u00a0purchase its\u00a0own server space to host your project. We will use\u00a0Reclaim Hosting<\/a>, which costs $25 per year and includes your own URL. (If you have server\u00a0space of your own you’d like to use, please speak to Prof. Posner or Francesca Albrezzi.) Each group will pool its money to purchase its own server space.<\/p>\n At the conclusion of the class, you have the option of maintaining the server that hosts your project (meaning that you will continue to pay for the space) or letting the project expire. You’ll need to decide as a group which you prefer.<\/p>\n Whatever you decide, your group will submit a copy of your site as HTML files so that your project will be permanently archived as a\u00a0static site<\/strong>\u00a0on UCLA’s own servers. (Professor Posner will explain how to do this.) This means that while it will look like the site your group has built, you will not be able to update the archived\u00a0version.<\/p>\n Here are all the possible datasets your group could choose for its project. You’ll fill out a questionnaire in lab on Friday, October 13, telling us your group’s top five choices, and we’ll do our best to give you one of those choices. If your group doesn’t get one of its top five, we’ll add two points to your project’s final score.<\/p>\n On Friday, October 20, your group will receive a digital folder containing:<\/p>\n For your final project, you will work with a group to create a web-based mini-site that explores and analyzes a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
More on the Narrative<\/h3>\n
Hosting and archiving your final project<\/h3>\n
Datasets<\/h3>\n
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