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[Sp23] Community Innovation - IS/MACS266: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Assignment 8: Visualization, Surveys, and Bibliography

Part 1:
(a) The D'Ignazio and Klein reading discusses a Residential Security Map. (i) Discuss who made this map and who was mapped. (ii) Describe a form of insecurity that arose from this Security Map.

(b) We will be distributing our class survey after Spring break. In preparation for its release, we will start planning out how we will disseminate it. This worksheet will offer some suggestions for how to organize your outreach. Fill in at least one contact for communities/people you plan to recruit in each of the five different category rows (e.g, RSOs, College, Department, etc.). Include your table in your write-up.

(c) Of the visualizations on https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ and https://flowingdata.com, pick two that you believe convey a convincing and reliable narrative. Include the URL for each visualization and explain (1) what features of the visualization signal trust and (2) what visualization styles they utilize from the "A Tour through the Visualization Zoo" paper.

Part 2: Lab - Searching for secondary sources on your topic
Based upon your developing interest in a course topic, you will do a secondary source search for your topic in the library databases we have looked at, and one you have not (JSTOR):

UIUC Easy Search www.library.illinois.edu
Using JSTOR - How-to guides: https://guides.jstor.org/how-to-use-jstor

You should find three secondary sources related to your topic and produce a brief annotated bibliography that will include the following for each source you identify. The beginning portion of a sample annotated bibliography is also provided below.

Identify the source and provide complete information, i.e., its title, author(s), date of publication, where published (if journal, provide name of journal, volume number and/or issue number
In 1 paragraph, address why you think this source is relevant to your topic (which is)? Can you briefly summarize the author(s) argument? (in two or three sentences)
- For help for a book, you might look at (1) the Subject index and (2) Description (if given). These can be found in the library ‘digital card’ for each source (as we reviewed in class).
- For a journal article, you can read the abstract or intro.
In 1 or 2 sentences for each source, address how each allows you to reflect on the topic of campus safety and debates around this across time.

This WORKSHEET offers some guided practice to aid you in your searches.
We will use this survey information DOCUMENT to finalize the survey and start recruitment.

Annotated Bibliography Sample (in Chicago Manual Style):
Williamson, Joy Ann. Black Power on Campus: the University of Illinois, 1965-75. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Williamson’s book looks at the evolution of the black student movement at the University of Illinois, a predominantly white campus, between the mid 1960s and 1970s. The U of I’s experience provides a good example of what was happening on other college campuses across the country. It includes a chapter on the U of I’s Black Student Association, one of the parties involved in the development of Project 500.

Post your Reading Response and Project Worksheet to your Scalar page and send us (IS266TeachingTeam@gmail.com) the link by 12pm (noon) Monday, March 20.