MODULES

Stuff will appear here,eventually.

WEEK 1: Introduction and Course Foundations W1-1: Brief Intro to Quantitative Literacy W1-2: The Deep Horizon Oil spill - a prime example of policy respone made in a quantitative literacy vacuum W1-3: Abundant Examples of Misleading Graphics W1-3a: Oil Production Data for use with this graphing tool (you should practice what we did in class) W1-4: Examples of Data Visualization	WEEK 2: Digital Humanities W2-1: NGRAM and Culturnomics W2-2: Applications of Digital Humanities W2-3: Bubble Chart Representations of event frequencies
WEEK 3: Estimation Techniques; Google Earth as a Visualization Tool W3-1: Estimation Problems and Techniques W3-2: More Examples of Environmental Visualization	WEEK 4: Bits, bytes, and pervasive computing W4-1: Bits and Bytes W4-2: Moore's Law and unbounded computing? W4-3: Pervasive Computing
WEEK 5: Big Data, Accountability and Society W5-1: What is Big Data? W5-2: High Resolution Remote Sensing and Environmental Accountability W5-3: Why is Big Data Important? W5-4: First Midterm Friday Oct 31	WEEK 6: Visualization of Climate Change Data W6-0: Review of Midterm W6-1: Indirect indicators of climate change W6-2: National Climate Assessment Report (2014) W6-3: Highlighted US Regions of Climate Impact W6-4: Images of Change Very Effective Doing this in Google Earth
WEEK 7: Social Aspects of Big Data Visualizing Elections Dynamics of Social Media Possible Down Sides of Social Media Social Media, Big Data, Analytics and Influence NeoFormix worth paying attenion to.	WEEK 8: Visualized Risk Perception Risk Perception Climate Change Risk Tool for California The Gapminder Interface An excellent example of data/risk visualiation and communication. Example techniques used for Volcano Risk Assessment More (good and bad) Examples of attempts at risk perception visualization Midterm 2: Friday Nov 21 The Second Midterm
WEEK 9: Demographics Visualization Examples of demographic visualization interfaces Graphics for your Generation Good You Tube Visualizations on important issues	WEEK 10: Summary and Reflections on Data and Quantitative Literacy Numerical Literacy Read this A Quantitative View of the Millenial Generation Yet another literacy survey Yes there is class on Friday of the last week