User guide demonstrates having completed substantial research across all five project exercises
Language, visuals, and formats are tailored towards a particular audience
No minimum word count, but example user guide is about 4000 words long
Final Project Scoring
Meets Criteria: Clearly communicating the contexts that produced data in a format appropriate for a given audience
Exceeds Criteria: Creatively playing with the style and medium of communication in order to better reach and engage an audience
Reading Discussion
Free-writing: Consider a numeric metric you use to measure something about yourself. Pick something that has special meaning for you. Is there a number that you strive for? How do you know when your score is “good”?
Principles for Active Listening
Suspend judgment
Be curious
Halt internal commentary
Listen with intention
Express gratitude for sharing
Structured Story-tellling
Find a partner, and decide who will speak first and who will speak second.
Two minutes:
First speaker: Provides uninterrupted narration about this measure. What does it mean to you? How did it come to have its meaning? How do you decide what success looks like?
Second speaker: Listens with intention: What does this number mean to this person?
One minute:
Second speaker: Reflect back on what you heard/ask questions, etc. (e.g. “From what I understand…”)
First speaker: Affirm, correct, clarify, but also listen for what they heard
Swap and repeat.
Through what mechanisms did people decide what was good?
Did you identify social structures at play in making this number meaningful?
Did you hear your partner talk about ways this number might mean different things to different people?
Mobilizing Data Narratives
Mobilization refers to the processes by which people prepare something to be put to use or into action
Stakeholders strategically engage in meaning-making activities around data
Shapes societal interpretations of data
Mobilizing Data Narratives
Mobilization refers to the processes by which people prepare something to be put to use or into action
Stakeholders strategically engage in meaning-making activities around data
Shapes societal interpretations of data
Narrating Data
Curating plot details and trajectories
Choosing variables to report on
Choosing how to sequence statistics
Engaging literary or rhetorical devices
Techniques of communication designed to evoke a reaction from the listener