From 66854fe7d87e0859bb3458cc6b3526d590767c76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriele Filomena Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:38:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Delete introduction.ipynb --- introduction.ipynb | 118 --------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 118 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 introduction.ipynb diff --git a/introduction.ipynb b/introduction.ipynb deleted file mode 100644 index 8d5f925..0000000 --- a/introduction.ipynb +++ /dev/null @@ -1,118 +0,0 @@ -{ - "cells": [ - { - "cell_type": "markdown", - "metadata": {}, - "source": [ - "# Introduction\n", - "\n", - "Dani Arribas-Bel\n", - "\n", - "**Lecture**: Introduction to the module\n", - "\n", - "**Lab**: Powerful examples & Discussion about interactive map\n", - "\n", - "## Lecture\n", - "\n", - "Slides can be found [here](https://github.com/GDSL-UL/wma/raw/main/html/introduction_slides.html)\n", - "\n", - "## Lab: Powerful examples\n", - "\n", - "This lab has two main components:\n", - "\n", - "1. The first one will require you to find a partner and work together with her/him\n", - "\n", - "2. And the second one will involve group discussion.\n", - "\n", - "### Paired activity\n", - "\n", - "In pairs, find three examples where web maps are used to communicate an idea. Complete the following sheet for each example:\n", - "\n", - "- **Substantive**\n", - "\n", - " - `Title`: Title of the map/project\n", - " - `Author`: Who is behind the project?\n", - " - `Big idea`: a \"one-liner\" on what the project tries to accomplish --\n", - " - `Message`: what does the map try to get accross\n", - "\n", - "- **Technical**\n", - "\n", - " - `URL`:\n", - " - `Interactivity`: does the map let you interact with it in any way? Yes/No\n", - " - `Zoomable`: can you explore the map at different scales? Yes/No\n", - " - `Tooltips`:\n", - " - `Basemap`: Is there an underlying map providing geographical context? Yes/No. If so, who is it provided by?\n", - " - `Technology`: can you guess what technology does this map rely on?\n", - "\n", - "Post each sheet as a separate item on the Teams channel for Lab No.1\n", - "\n", - "As an example, below is the sheet for the project \"WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard\" ![\"WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard\"](./img/who_covid.png)\n", - "\n", - "- **Substantive**\n", - "\n", - " - `Title`: WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard\n", - "\n", - " - `Author`: World Health Organization\n", - "\n", - " - `Big idea`: Shows confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths by country to date\n", - "\n", - " - `Message`: The project displays a map of the world where COVID-19 cases are shown by country. This element is used to show which countries have had more cases (large trends). A drop down button allows us to visualise the map by a) Total per 100,000 population b) % change in the last 7 days c) newly reported in the last 7 days d) newly reported in the last 24 hours.\n", - "\n", - "- **Technical**\n", - "\n", - " - `URL`: [`https://covid19.who.int/`](https://covid19.who.int/)\n", - "\n", - " - `Interactivity`: Yes\n", - "\n", - " - `Zoomable`: Yes\n", - "\n", - " - `Tooltips`: Yes\n", - "\n", - " - `Basemap`: No\n", - "\n", - " - `Technology`: Unknown\n", - "\n", - "Here are a couple of other COVID-19 examples of web-maps that where basemaps and technology is easier to spot.\n", - "\n", - "- [\"London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - COVID-19 tracker\"](https://vac-lshtm.shinyapps.io/ncov_tracker/?_ga=2.246644480.501918083.1674819300-1251881958.1674819300)\n", - "- [\"Tracking Coronavirus in the United Kingdom: Latest Map and Case Count\"](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/united-kingdom-covid-cases.html)\n", - "\n", - "### Class discussion\n", - "\n", - "We will select a few examples posted and collectively discuss (some of) the following questions:\n", - "\n", - "1. What makes them powerful, what \"speaks\" to us?\n", - "\n", - "2. What could be improved, what is counter-intuitive?\n", - "\n", - "3. What design elements do they rely on?\n", - "\n", - "4. What technology do they use?\n", - "\n", - "## References\n", - "\n", - "- For an excellent coverage of \"visualisation literacy\", Chapter 11 of Andy Kirk's [\"Data Visualisation\"](https://www.visualisingdata.com/book/) is a great start. Lab: Getting up to speed for web mapping\n", - "- A comprehensive overview of computational notebooks and how they relate to modern scientific work is available on [Ch.1 of the GDS book](https://geographicdata.science/book/notebooks/01_geo_thinking.html).\n", - "- A recent overview of notebooks in Geography is available in [Boeing & Arribas-Bel (2021)](https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/gis-and-computational-notebooks)" - ], - "id": "0e209a48" - } - ], - "metadata": { - "kernelspec": { - "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)", - "language": "python", - "name": "python3" - }, - "jupytext": { - "text_representation": { - "extension": ".qmd", - "format_name": "quarto", - "format_version": "1.0", - "jupytext_version": "1.13.8" - } - } - }, - "nbformat": 4, - "nbformat_minor": 5 -} \ No newline at end of file