Week 1 - Introduction

  • 2025-01-14
  • 9:30-10:45
  • Shannon 317

Guiding Questions

  • What is data?
  • What is this course?

Pre-work

The Plan

We Data: An Icebreaking Activity

I want to get to know you. In the spirit of the course, your job is to make a dataset about yourselves to share back with me. You have 45 minutes in which to do so. You have to hit the following buckets.

  • Identify your data
    • Who are you?
  • Describe your data
    • What are you interested in describing as a part of your dataset? What are you not?
  • Collect
    • Gather your data in one place.
  • Clean
    • Edit the dataset so that it’s in a presentable, consistent format.
  • Analyze
    • What stories are in your dataset?
  • Distribute
    • How will you share it back to me?

Some advice

  • Not everyone has to work on the same things! Divide up.
  • Use what you have.
  • Don’t spend so much time talking. Do.

Homework

  • By Friday morning at 9:00 AM, share your class dataset with me along with a 50-100 word reflection on the activity. What was the most challenging piece? What did you learn?