Week 12 (13/15 Apr)

We should expect Ramadan to begin on or around 13 April. Next week is all asynchronous lab work and the following week is group discussion of the presentations.

Please refrain from eating or drinking on zoom during our synchronous sessions.

13 April (synchronous class)

We will also walk through the steps of making your sequential stops in the travel narrative into a shortest-path itinerary mappable in ArcGIS online.

We will be working with this dataset as an example. Here is the map in ArcGIS with the itinerary.

15 April (synchronous class)

Today will be a hands on lab to get your data into tables into a format such that it will work with AGOL's itinerary generator and we will make a storymap with it during the class.

A set of videos from last semester's process of making the storymaps can be found here.

Blog 4 (due 0600, 4 May)

Blog 4 requires you to transfer your knowledge from what you have learned this semester. Please write a letter to an older person in your family in which you explain in plain, non-technical language what you learned this semester and how it is important to you (and to them, to your country, etc).

Here are some ideas of topics you could address in your letter (you do not need to discuss them all): What is the spatial data gap? How might it impact the places in the world you know? What is data literacy and what does it have to do with this course? What is data storytelling? What is a story map? How difficult or easy is is it to create and publish data stories? What kinds of skills have you had to learn this semester? How do you feel about the datafication of human space? of human life?

If you would like to include anything in your final blog (pictures, hand written notes in any language, drawings), feel free, provided that it gets across the point.

There is no Quick Writing Week 11.