Editing Human Centered Data Science (Fall 2019)/Assignments
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==== Combining the datasets ==== | ==== Combining the datasets ==== | ||
Some processing of the data will be necessary! In particular, you'll need to - after retrieving and including the ORES data for each article - merge the wikipedia data and population data together. Both have fields containing country names for just that purpose. After merging the data, you'll invariably run into entries which ''cannot'' be merged. Either the population dataset does not have an entry for the equivalent Wikipedia country, or | Some processing of the data will be necessary! In particular, you'll need to - after retrieving and including the ORES data for each article - merge the wikipedia data and population data together. Both have fields containing country names for just that purpose. After merging the data, you'll invariably run into entries which ''cannot'' be merged. Either the population dataset does not have an entry for the equivalent Wikipedia country, or vice versa. | ||
Please remove any rows that do not have matching data, and output them to a CSV file called <tt>wp_wpds_countries-no_match.csv</tt> | Please remove any rows that do not have matching data, and output them to a CSV file called <tt>wp_wpds_countries-no_match.csv</tt> | ||
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For this assignment, you will go undercover as a member of the Amazon Mechanical Turk community. You will preview or perform Mechanical Turk tasks (called "HITs"), lurk in Turk worker discussion forums, and write an ethnographic account of your experience as a crowdworker, and how this experience changes your understanding of the phenomenon of crowdwork. | For this assignment, you will go undercover as a member of the Amazon Mechanical Turk community. You will preview or perform Mechanical Turk tasks (called "HITs"), lurk in Turk worker discussion forums, and write an ethnographic account of your experience as a crowdworker, and how this experience changes your understanding of the phenomenon of crowdwork. | ||
The full assignment description is available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16lZdTxkw1meUPMzA-BYl8TVtk0Jxv4Wh8mbZq_BursM/edit?usp=sharing as a Google doc]. | The full assignment description is available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16lZdTxkw1meUPMzA-BYl8TVtk0Jxv4Wh8mbZq_BursM/edit?usp=sharing as a Google doc] and [[:File:HCDS_Crowdwork_ethnography_instructions.pdf|as a PDF]]. | ||
=== A4: Final project proposal === | === A4: Final project proposal === | ||
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=== A5: Final project plan === | |||
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For this assignment, you will write up a study plan for your final class project. The plan will cover a variety of details about your final project, including what data you will use, what you will do with the data (e.g. statistical analysis, train a model), what results you expect or intend, and most importantly, why your project is interesting or important (and to whom, besides yourself). | For this assignment, you will write up a study plan for your final class project. The plan will cover a variety of details about your final project, including what data you will use, what you will do with the data (e.g. statistical analysis, train a model), what results you expect or intend, and most importantly, why your project is interesting or important (and to whom, besides yourself). | ||
=== A6: Final project presentation === | === A6: Final project presentation === | ||
For this assignment, you will give an in-class presentation of your final project. The goal of this | For this assignment, you will give an in-class presentation of your final project. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate that you are able to effectively communicate your research questions, methods, conclusions, and implications to your target audience. | ||
=== A7: Final project report === | === A7: Final project report === | ||
For this assignment, you will publish the complete code, data, and analysis of your final research project. The goal is to demonstrate that you can incorporate all of the human-centered design considerations you learned in this course and create research artifacts that are understandable, impactful, and reproducible. | For this assignment, you will publish the complete code, data, and analysis of your final research project. The goal is to demonstrate that you can incorporate all of the human-centered design considerations you learned in this course and create research artifacts that are understandable, impactful, and reproducible. | ||
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