Meeting 6 Agenda

Meeting Info

• Zoom Click here
• Monday, July 31 at 1pm

Objectives

• Concepts: Data Analysis
• Review Survey Data and collected orientation materials
• Define and discuss next steps

Activities

• Presentation: Director of Surveys and Assessment, Yongchao (Yimi) Zhao, Ph.D.
  • Yimi’s PowerPoint Presentation (Dropbox – pptx)
  • Student orientation survey questions (Dropbox – pdfs) from Fall 16 to Fall 19, designed and administered by the Office of Student Life & Development.
  • Vanessa Villanueva is the contact person if you would like to reach out.
• Analysis Discussion:
  • Review Survey Results in ArcGIS123
  • Questions about survey analysis and interpretation of survey results.
  • How to recognize patterns in data?
  • How to recognize patterns in information? And build a story.
  • What problems have you identified?
  • Who is the audience?
  • Solutions?
• Discussion City Tech Orientation:
  • August 16, 17, 18
  • Communications and marketing??
• Intern Reports:
  • Orientation materials collected / Dropbox
  • Journal posts: Reading, Resources Links, Glossary
• Next Steps?
  • Review and analyze data from surveys and collected materials
  • Identify the problems
  • Brainstorm solutions

To-Do For Next Meeting

Read/Watch:

• Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information : An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2013. Chapter 1 (PDF) & 2 (PDF) 
• Watch Silas Munro, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America”(Vimeo 1 Hour)
• Read: “W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)” The Public Domain Review, Source: Library of Congress.

Complete:

1. Select a minimum of three charts that best visualize your findings from the survey from the DataViz website: https://datavizcatalogue.com/search.html 
2. Collect any remaining materials about your department in the Dropbox
3. Required Week 6 Journal Entry: Create a Post using the Category: Journal.
   Include the following:
   • Write a brief reflection on today’s lecture/discussion and the readings/media
   • Share links to any web resources, definitions, media, tutorials, or tools to add to the Course Resources on the Model Course Site.
4. Add 5 terms to the Glossary post (term, definition and source)
5. Submit the checklist below to document your contributions this week

Zoom Recording 

Zoom link to Week6’s meeting – 0731/23
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