- Location: 370 Jay Street, Room Room 408 Loc: Brooklyn Campus
- 10/27/2023 - 12/15/2023 12:10 PM - 2:40 PM
- ITPG-GT 2379 2
- CEH-GA 2223
Instructors: John Henry Thompson; Shindy Johnson
This course will use the open source The COVID-19 Impact Project as an entry point to explore humanizing data on systemic inequity and injustice on a global and local scale.
In this course we will:
● Explore ideas of memory making for social justice and social resilience
● Discuss pioneers and contemporary developers of data visualization for social justice
● Explore different modes of data storytelling
● Develop new data stories according to student interest
● Clarify pandemic stories through data disaggregation
Students can choose to participate as creatives, artists, javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, data science explorers or social justice advocates.
● Open Source Projects for the Public Good
● Data: Sourcing, Humanizing and Creating Visual Narratives from Data
● Storytelling with and from Data
● Data storytelling as a scaffold to support grief, ritual and memorialization after mass death events
** Students wishing to pursue their final projects beyond the class will be provided with information about resources at NYU for supporting student projects that amplify underrepresented narratives.
** Students wishing to continue their participation in The COVID-19 Impact Project after the course ends should notify us as we are seeking grant funding to implement viable concepts.
Students will participate in lectures, research, discussion groups, hands on design and build activities and group or individual projects. Students will be expected to dedicate at least 3 hours of work on weekly assignments in between sessions.
Week 1 (10/27/23) Lecture: Background, development and components of the Covid-19 Impact Project - a data driven project for social justice and social resilience. Historical and current examples of data visualization for social justice.
Week 2 (11/03/23) Lecture: Data literacy and accessible tools for data storytelling. The art of humanizing data. How do open source data projects work and how can we use/contribute to open source data projects?
Week 3 (11/10/23) Lecture and Guest Speaker: Our guest lecturer will be Tim Williams from Tickr, Inc. Tickr is a data analytics and data visualization firm that uses technologies including machine learning and AI to deploy anayltics for businesses.
Telling stories using data. Finding the stories in data. NYC COVID-19 data vizualization. Multimodal data storytelling. Considerations for designing data visualizations. Decoding data visualizations.
Week 4 (11/17/23) Lecture: Vizualization considerations when working with big data, small personal data, data art. Explore social resilience and examples of social resilience resulting from data disagregation and memory making from data.
Week 5 (12/01/2023) Lecture: The value of stories. Data Visualization: Paragraph or Picture? Researching, documenting and citing data sources.
Final Project: Students present final project concept and first iteration for in-class discussion and feedback. All assignments must include documentation. All project documentation uploaded to class Google drive and/or Github repo.
Week 6 (12/08/23) Lecture: Small Data, Personal Data: Examining the work of Giorgia Lupi. More on documentation and citation.
Final Projects: Students present second iteration of final project for in class discussion and feedback. All project documentation must be uploaded to class Google drive and/or Github repo.
Visitor and Guest Speaker: Tyler Peppel Founder and CEO of Tickr.com
Week 7 Presentations and Classroom Visitor(s). Students present the final project. All assignments must include documentation. All project documentation must be uploaded to class Google drive and/or Github repo.
Students will be graded on
➢ Attendance and class participation including written peer reviews/feedback (mandatory) 20%
➢ Weekly homework assignments (mandatory) 20%
➢ Final project (3 iterations and documentation) 60%
The COVID-19 Impact Project Dashboard
COVID-19 Impact Project Dashboard Tools
The Coding Lab https://codinglab.itp.io/ and The Design Lab https://designlab.itp.io/
These are peer-to-peer tutoring/mentoring/consulting groups that you can go for project help! Each mentor has different skills and strengths listed on their websites. Click the links above to find appointment links and contact information.
If you are in need of project documentation (photos, film, interviews, etc.), you can get in touch with the Documentation Lab: https://forms.gle/V2x4mecHPzUkEeaU7
STATEMENT OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as though it were your own. More specifically, plagiarism is to present as your own: A sequence of words quoted without quotation marks from another writer or a paraphrased passage from another writer’s work or facts, ideas or images composed by someone else.
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE
The core of the educational experience at the Tisch School of the Arts is the creation of original academic and artistic work by students for the critical review of faculty members. It is therefore of the utmost importance that students at all times provide their instructors with an accurate sense of their current abilities and knowledge in order to receive appropriate constructive criticism and advice. Any attempt to evade that essential, transparent transaction between instructor and student through plagiarism or cheating is educationally self-defeating and a grave violation of Tisch School of the Arts community standards. For all the details on plagiarism, please refer to page 10 of the Tisch School of the Arts, Policies and Procedures Handbook, which can be found online at https://tisch.nyu.edu/student-affairs/important-resources/tisch-policies-and-handbooks
STATEMENT ON ACCESSIBILITY
Please feel free to make suggestions to your instructor about ways in which this class could become more accessible to you. Academic accommodations are available for students with documented disabilities. Please contact the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities at 212 998-4980 for further information.
STATEMENT ON COUNSELING AND WELLNESS
Your health and safety are a priority at NYU. If you experience any health or mental health issues during this course, we encourage you to utilize the support services of the 24/7 NYU Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999. Also, all students who may require academic accommodation due to a qualified disability, physical or mental, please register with the Moses Center at 212-998-4980. Please let your instructor know if you need help connecting to these resources.
STATEMENT ON USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Laptops will be an essential part of the course and may be used in class during workshops and for taking notes in lectures. Laptops must be closed during class discussions and student presentations. Phone use in class is strictly prohibited unless directly related to a presentation of your own work or if you are asked to do so as part of the curriculum.
STATEMENT ON TITLE IX
Tisch School of the Arts to dedicated to providing its students with a learning environment that is rigorous, respectful, supportive and nurturing so that they can engage in the free exchange of ideas and commit themselves fully to the study of their discipline. To that end Tisch is committed to enforcing University policies prohibiting all forms of sexual misconduct as well as discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Detailed information regarding these policies and the resources that are available to students through the Title IX office can be found by using the following link: Title IX at NYU.