In class:
-OJA Finalist Presentation Disappearing Daughters (Mohammed)
-From Interviewing Your Data to Making a Chart. Ask yourself the following questions:
- What are the 5 W’s of the data?
- What is the main take-away?
- What is the right chart or graph for my data and take-away?
- How can my graph communicate that take-away simply and clearly?
-Example 1: Reviewing Assignment: Making basic charts with Google Sheets
-Example 2: Use this Google sheet of Apple vs. Amazon. Let’s ask the questions. Then let’s make a chart.
-Example 3: Bubble Chart from Hundreds Of Schools Are Still Using Native Americans As Team Mascots from Data Base MascotDB.com. This time, let’s reverse the order of questions and work back from the visualization to the data.
-More Examples from Reddit Data Is Beautiful
Assignments:
Make sure you are comfortable with basics of Google Sheets. I suggest watching this 15 min. tutorial video which covers almost everything you need. You must know how to do all of the following in Google Sheets by next week:
- Create new worksheet and share it
- Add sheet pages (+) to a worksheet
- Make a copy and rename a worksheet (File>Make a Copy)
- Import a Excel or .csv file into Google Sheets (File>Import)
- Edit and format data
- Add or move column or row
- Highlight and copy and paste an entire sheet (Click cell above A1 to highlight)
- Copy and Paste Special>Values only
- Add basic formula or function
- Add a chart
- Edit and format a chart
- Save or publish a chart from a Google Sheet
- Export as a Excel or .csv file (Download>Select file type)
- Scrape a table or list from a website into Google Sheets
Complete or revise Rowan COVID Charts Assignment (2 points) – Due Oct 18 if you didn’t do them already.
Digital Journalism 2 