W12: Reading Response and Lab
1) You looked over two different narrative styles that used visualization to tell stories: (a) The Atlas of Redistricting and (b) Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
(i) Visualizations often help to tell stories. Describe three differences in the storytelling styles of the two examples.
(ii) Both examples allow for a form of comparison. Describe an example of how comparison furthers the narrative in each of the two examples.
2) Find a visualization that you’d like to redesign, or use examples from these links:
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/category/maps-apps-visualizations/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
3) Now hand-draw (on paper!) a new version or sketch of that visualization, identifying either a new point of emphasis or including a new stream of complementary data. How would your new visualization change the narrative? Feel free to imagine a rendering of data you don’t have access to (but can imagine exists, e.g. the number of hospitals, tests per community, etc.) It also doesn't have to be about COVID-19, it could be about your research topic!
4) Include a link to the original visualization you selected for your redesign, and take a photo of your redesign. Post both to your Scalar site.
Part 2: (continuation from last week)
At this point you've already reached out to potential interview contacts. Some have gotten back to you already - so good work!
- Set up an interview with a relevant contact for your research project
- Send your interviewee the Informed Consent for Interviews discussed in class and get the signed/completed version returned to you before you ask start asking your interviewee any questions.
- Email the consent form to your interviewee, either in advance of your interview or right before starting
- Go over the 4 parts document with them and make sure they have answered each section appropriately.
- Ask them to type in their name in a different color at the end of the Consent Form as their signature.
- Conduct the interview (and record it if you have their permission)
- Transcribe the best 4 minutes of your interview (can be various 30 second segments, one stretch, whatever will serve you best).
- Make selections and edit your transcript to a one-page version (but keep the original for your records)
- Write up a 1 paragraph introduction for your interview that will contextualize your selected transcript for the reader
- Highlight 2 quotes from the interview that feel most important. How can you begin to use this as data and put it in conversation with other information (Survey results, Archive findings, Secondary Sources) for your final paper?