11. WTFcsv - learning to asking questions
https://databasic.io/wtfcsv
Come back with:
1 question to ask
list of other datasets you'd need
how you'd try to get those datasets
16. tools for making charts
does lots of things does one thing
easy to learn
hard to learn
raw
processing
Excel
Tableau
gephi
D3.js
Illustrator
infogr.am
Comic Life
Super Lame
skrollr
Google Charts
18. Abelson's MAGIC
Magnitude - size of the claim
Articulation - how precise is your claim
Generality - is it valid in multiple contexts
Interestingness - can this change beliefs in a way that matters?
Credibility - do you believe it?
Robert Abelson. 1995. Making Claims with Statistics. In Statistics
as Principled Argument. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1–16. (PDF)
20. From Data to Argument
Rahul Bhargava
rahulb@mit.edu • @rahulbot
Systemic Justice Project
2017.02.22
Editor's Notes
types: open data with APIs, semi-open data - PDF munging, scraping, crowdsourcing, citizen science - manual data collection
sources: social media, government, non-profits / interest groups, DIY