You will be presenting your projects during the last week of class, on March 15. You will each have a five- to seven-minute slot, with three or four minutes for questions.
Some of you will present in person and some will present on video. You can find out which medium you’re using here. Videos are due at the beginning of class on March 15.
Your final project itself is not due until March 24, so I will not expect you to present a finished, polished project. However, I would like to see you discuss the following (not necessarily in this order):
- What does your dataset contain? What are its affordances and its limitations?
- What story or stories will you be telling based on the dataset (and any other sources you used)?
- How did you arrive at the direction you chose?
- How does what you’re covering fit in with existing literature on the topic?
I will expect to see some visualizations and/or map(s), even if they’re still prototypes, and I will expect you to at least have a well-fleshed-out plan for publishing your project, if not a functioning website.
Submitting a video presentation
If you’re submitting your presentation on video, I’ll be looking at the content of the presentation, not the quality of the video. An assignment will be available on BruinLearn, under the Week 10 module. You can upload your video directly to the assignment, or you can host it elsewhere (e.g., YouTube, Internet Archive) and post the link. If you’ve hosted the video elsewhere, you’re welcome to password-protect it; just let me know what the password is. Here are instructions for uploading a video for an assignment.
I want you to have the benefit of your classmates’ wisdom, so I’ll also use Canvas’s peer-review function to assign a few people to watch each video. Your comments don’t need to be extensive; just a few lines about what you liked or any suggestions you have.