visualization

This course will use the open source The COVID-19 Impact Project as an entry point to explore humanizing data on systemic inequity and injustice on a global and local scale.

In this course we will:

● Explore and invent creative uses of data for advocacy and change.
● Discover how data flows from public github repositories and tools needed to visualize the data.
● Review other data-centric open source projects for the public good and discuss the questions they are trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve.
● Examine and draw inspiration from historical and contemporary data visualizations developed by advocates for social justice and the public good.
● Use data visualization as a scaffold to explore ways to support community driven mourning and memorialization after mass death events.

Students can choose to participate as creatives, artists, javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, data science explorers or social justice advocates.

Course Outline
● Open Source Projects for the Public Good
● Data: Sourcing, Humanizing and Creating Visual Narratives from Data
● Storytelling with and from Data
● Data storytelling as a scaffold to support grief, ritual and memorialization after mass death events

** Students wishing to pursue their final projects beyond the class will be provided with information about resources at NYU for supporting student projects that amplify underrepresented narratives.

** Students wishing to continue their participation in The COVID-19 Impact Project after the course ends should notify us as we are seeking grant funding to implement viable concepts.