During Friday’s class (almost) every week, we will spend the first few minutes looking at a news article, post, or anything else you come across that uses Data Science to try to make some point.

The purpose of this is to encourage you all to pay attention to how data is used in the everyday media you consume, and to start to think carefully about it.

We ask that your examples clearly have at least one data source that they used, as well as some kind of visual to get the point across.

Not every example has to be great! In fact, if there are some flaws or shortcomings about how the data is presented, that can be very interesting to discuss.

Your assignment

Follow this link to a Google sheet and find the tab for your section at the bottom.

By the end of the first week of class, just add your name for a week when you are sure you will be in class that Friday.

Then, at least two days prior to your scheduled date, add a link to the article/post/whatever you are discussing.

On that day of class, be prepared to discuss the data source or sources that they used, as well as a key image or visual from the article.

You don’t have to be an expert! This should really just take a few minutes. We will all discuss it together, and hopefully have fun.

Grading

Every student must sign up, fill out the spreadsheet with an appropriate example, and come prepared to say a sentence or two introducing it on class that day. Then you will earn an A for this homework assignment.