Digging for a story in data

16 Sep 2015

QUIZ

• Open this dataset: Vehicle Repairs | Open Data | State of Connecticut
• Fill out this form. Only 4 questions: Class 3 quiz

Slides and walkthroughs

• Class 3 intro

• Facebook declining?

• Analysis: The Baltimore Sun's City rape statistics, investigations draw concern story

• Intro to Plot.ly

• Data for plotly exercise

Links from lectures/walkthroughs

• Facebook’s decline in popularity: A viral research paper doesn’t prove its case.

• Facebook earnings

Download links

• Mac - Sublime Text
• PC - Notepad++ v6.8.3

Assignments for Sept. 23

Read: How We Made "Faces of Death Row"

Read: The Pulitzer Prizes | Part 1: The money prison

Homework 1

Using Plotly, make a bar chart counting the top 5 of something in one of these data sets.

• School languages | Open Data | State of Connecticut
• State Licenses and Credentials | Open Data | State of Connecticut
• Police Incidents 01012005 to Current | Open Data | City of Hartford
• District Enrollment: 2013-14 | Open Data | State of Connecticut

Homework 2

HTML Basics II | Codecademy

• Copy and paste the code you used to pass the 14th exercise into an html file and upload it to your GitHub repo. Email me the link.