This assignment is to be completed individually. It is due in the window between _______________
Instructions:
Assignments are an "open ended applications of the work that we have done in the rest of the course presented as a web-written document. These are typically about 1500 words each, plus visuals."
Following the example of Dear Data & other QS tracking assignments in the course that we have discussed, your task is to identify some elements of your own life or immediate surroundings you would like to track and create data about. You can do this in the form of a spreadsheet you fill out at regular intervals, or can employ a device to help you (shortcuts on the smartphone for example).
The tracking should take place between week 3 and week 6, making up at least 50 points of data. You could record twice daily 6 days a week (as Franklin did), or choose to work more intensively over a period of one week. Be as creative as you like, tapping into whatever skills you possess.
Format:
The end product is a dataset, cleaned and in csv format (or other analogous format : json, etc). If you do not provide the whole dataset, please provide a redacted sample of the output. Accompanying the dataset is a web-written assignment of about 1500 plus visuals. The visuals can be a combination of data visualization and or other methods. Please try at least one graphical representation.
Guiding questions (you do not need to answer all of these):
What are your trying to track in this assignment? Do you expect to get any self-knowledge from it?
Describe in detail how you carried out the tracking? Did you revise your original plan? Why?
How did you create scales to help you come up with discrete values? What is the balance between quantitative and qualitative data you are collecting?
How easy or difficult was it to remember always to complete / process the tracking data?
How and when was the data collection process difficult, perhaps distorting of reality? What did the process not capture about reality?
Did the visualization software impose some constraints you would have not preferred to have?
Would you prefer for this data to be "forgotten"?
If you were to collect much more data (either over a longer time or with many more data points per day), how might your conclusions differ?
What relation can you draw to any of the readings or course materials?
"How did you make that?" -- include any code, names of tools/apps, tips, basic instructions for how you collected and visualized your data
When you have completed your assignment, please put "ready for grading" and the date at the bottom of the page.
This assignment is to be completed individually.
Instructions:
Assignments are an "open ended applications of the work that we have done in the rest of the course presented as a web-written document. These are typically about 1500 words each, plus visuals."
Building on the exercise we did in week 5 with Google takeout, your task is to identify a platform or app which collects data about you. This platform should be one for which you are able to initiate a "one-button" request for your data. (NB: I do not want you to scrape your own data, even if you know how).
Here are some examples of platforms on which such an option is available. The rules and formats for such data downloads change often. As is the case with Google takeout it can take some time to get this data, so plan ahead!
Twitter | Facebook | Whatsapp | WeChat | Instagram | Uber | Spotify | Slack | Discord | Reddit | Soundcloud | Tiktok | Apple ID (for Apple apps) | Health | Yelp | Skype |
You can use other sources of platform data, but check with your instructor first.
Format:
Once you have requested (and received) this data, you should find a way to show your reader a small portion of this data without revealing any private information (this could be in the form of screenshots with anything personal rubbed out or with fields removed). Do not post your whole dataset openly online.
Accompanying this "dataset" is a web-written assignment of about 1500 words plus visuals. The visuals can be a combination of data visualization and or other methods. Please try at least two graphical representations (one can be hand drawn, if you prefer) .
Guiding questions (you do not need to answer all of these):
Explain your choice of platform. What kinds of activities are you doing on it?
Are you a light, medium or heavy user of the platform? For what percentage of the time you have used it are you able to retrieve the data?
How easy is the data to retrieve? Were there obstacles? Did you try getting your data from one platform and then switch to another because of difficulties?
What kinds of data did you get? What kinds of formats? What was your reaction? Were you underwhelmed like this writer?
Look for the Terms and Conditions of this platform where they explain how they process this data.
What was missing from the data to help you contextualize it better?
What kind of analysis would you like to do with the retrieved data that you don't know how to do yet?
When you have completed your assignment, please put "ready for grading" and the date at the bottom of the page.