Our data fair brings together our Master students in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (http://www.designinformatics.org) and external partners (you!) to collaborate on data analysis and visualization. The goal is for the students to chose a real-world dataset and an associated 'challenge' over in our course 'Data Science for Design', running from October to December 2019. Within that course, students will learn the basics of data analysis and visualization. Their assignment requires them to analyze a data set (basic analysis and plotting) and work on a visualization project that can focus on exploratory or explanatory issues for data visualization. Students will work in groups of 3 students.
For references to the datafair, please cite this website and our research.
You will have the chance to work with motivated and creative students from a variety of backgrounds: graphic design, media, computer science, product design, etc. You will define a 'data challenge', an urgent problem or project you require help with around data analysis and visualization. You are invited to work with the students as close as you wish and attend our lectures and lab sessions (Thursdays 9am-1pm).
We hope that novel collaborations between you and the students and us will emerge. In semester 2, students have to chose open project as well as a master theses project in the summer; if the data fair project works well, there you are welcome to propose further projects and collaborate on supervision.
The commitment from your side will be:
We can’t promise everyone that their data will be used – it may be too complex or otherwise not suited to student analysis.
For selected datasets, students have 3 weeks to come up with an an individual analysis report (each student, hence 3 per group). Each report (ipython notebook including code and results) should investigate something different and will contain
After these two weeks, students have 3 weeks to come up with some engaging form of presenting the data (group work). This end-piece should help communicating insights from or around the data to a specific audience. This will be shaped by what you think makes most sense for you and the data, but the students will have the final say over their brief. Some outputs might be:
For questions, contact us.