Tuesday

Introduction

In-class activities

Today’s slides

Thursday

What does counting do? Why do we do it?

Nguyen, C. T. (2024, March 4). The Limits of Data. Issues in Science and Technology.

Chang, L. W., Kirgios, E. L., Mullainathan, S., & Milkman, K. L. (2024). Does counting change what counts? Quantification fixation biases decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(46), e2400215121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400215121

In-class activities

Today’s slides

Annotation exercise (undergrads)

Annotation exercise (grad students)

Data storytelling examples:

1. Fentanyl’s route from China to the US
2. Breaking the cycle of homelessness in SF
3. Tokyo runway collision
4. Sudanese refugees at the Egyptian border
5. Migrants stranded at sea
6. Scam centers in Myanmar

Discussion questions:

1. What is the first thing you see on the page? Why?
2. When does data enter the story?
3. What role do the stories of individuals or groups play?
4. How do you navigate the work? Why?
5. What role do text, images, video, and audio play?
6. How do the authors move between data and context?
7. How are data visualizations labeled?
8. When do the authors break the story into sections? Why?
9. What do the authors say about their methodology?