Seminar "Datascience"
[go to overview]Winter Term 2016 / 2017
The goal of this seminar is to learn how to tell stories based on data. We will look at examples from academia, industry and journalism and learn best practices.
Students will apply datascience methods to real world data and create a compelling story based on the data. This story will be presented at the end of the semester.
Termine
26th of Oct: Introdcution to Storytelling with Data
3th of Nov: Examples of good data stories
9th of Nov: Students present data stories they found
7th of Dec: Data Story Proposals
14th of Dec: Data Story Proposals (Group Formation)
11th of Jan: QA class
25th of Jan: QA class
8th of Feb: SUBMISSION DEADLINE (12pm CET)
15th of Feb: final presentations
22th of Feb: final presentations
Some starting points to look for datastories (Exercise 1):
- https://github.com/rushter/data-science-blogs
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/us/year-in-interactive-storytelling.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/data-journalism
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/data-journalism-awards_us_573102c5e4b0bc9cb047c273
Some resources to look for datasets (Exercise 2):
- https://www.govdata.de
- https://offenedaten-koeln.de/dataset
- http://data.europa.eu
- https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
- http://datasets.schema-labs.appspot.com/
- http://www.re3data.org/
- http://www.sociosite.net/databases.php
Things we will watch & discuss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMW7io4rSI
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen?language=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xsvGYIxJok
Please register in KLIPS: Veranstaltungsnummer 0462936
Veranstaltung - Seminar "Datascience"
| Dozent(in) | JProf. Dr. Claudia Wagner |
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Lecturers
- clwagner@uni-koblenz.de
- Alumnus