teaching data visualization through coffee prices
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Teaching Data Visualization
Through Coffee Prices
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Introducing
students to “data journalism” can
beINTIMIDATING
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By adapting an exercise from Thornburg’s “Producing Online News” and adding a dose of caffeinated competition...
STUDENTS CAN MASTER THE BASICS
OF DATA VISUALIZATIO
N IN 48 HOURS.
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STEP ONE:Put students in small
groups.The mission• Use a combination of reporting skills and data tools to create an interactive map that visualizes local coffee prices.*
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* 16 oz. drip
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STEP ONE (cont’d):Groups create reporting strategy.
• Settle on data elements.• Create Google spreadsheet.• Agree on reporting methods: Shoe-leather, phone calls, Web research, crowdsourcing, etc.
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STEP TWO:Collecting the data.• Finalized spreadsheets
due by start of next class.
• Standardizing is key.• If crowdsourcing, must
vet contributions and decide whether to use
them as is, correct them, or exclude.
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STEP THREE:Visualizing the data.• Groups reconvene
in class to turn spreadsheets into interactive maps with Google Fusion.
• Class time is for polishing and troubleshooting only;no additional reporting.