Please complete ONE of the following two assignments, whichever you think is more helpful to you and your project.
1. Make a map
Using your own dataset or this sample dataset, create a web-based map that includes points and tooltips. Submit the link to your map via BruinLearn.
If you use the sample dataset, you may have to do some data-wrangling to get the data ready for geocoding.
2. Network a short story
Select and read a work of short fiction from here.* Make a list of characters. These are your nodes. Decide what constitutes a connection (e.g., characters appear together in a scene, characters speak to each other, etc.) and build an edge list. (Refer to Step 1 of this tutorial if you’re still hazy on what an edge list is, and see below for a quick example.)
Use your edge list to build a simple network graph with Cytoscape or Flourish.
In a paragraph or two, reflect on the following: What, if anything, does this network graph illuminate about the characters’ connections? What are its limitations?
(If you’d like, you can record a video rather than write the text. You should be able to upload a video to this assignment).
Via the BruinLearn assignment, submit a screenshot of or link to your network graph and your reflection on it.
*Some stories are free to read and some aren’t. Click around until you find something you like!
Example
Let’s assume I decide that a character addressing another character constitutes a connection:
Daphne to Fred: You sure picked a spooky day to go boating, Freddy.
Fred to Daphne: Well, it didn’t start out that way. What could’ve happened.
Velma to Fred: It’s very simple. When the barometric pressure dropped, and the warm offshore air came in contact with an inland cold front, we ran into some unnavigable weather.
Fred to Velma: You’re right, Velma. Whatever you said.
Velma to Fred: I said, we’re lost in the fog.
| Character 1 | Character 2 |
| Daphne | Fred |
| Fred | Daphne |
| Velma | Fred |
| Fred | Velma |