An Educational Technology Journal--Or Is It?

            Two weeks ago, my class began an exploration of the wild frontier of raw datasets with the goal of ultimately finding ways to visually represent said data.   [ 1 ] I wrote about my experiences (read: battles) here and here . The second week gave us a specific tool to use, DataWrapper which was introduced to us by Dr. Tom Liam Lynch , as well as an added goal of processing the data in some way prior to said visualization. What this means is that my professor wanted us to (virtually) get our hands dirty and manipulate the raw data into new formats that helped give the data meaning. To further clarify, I don’t mean that we altered the data in any unethical way, just that any comparisons or functions completed using the data (e.g. percent changes, comparing data from one chart with data in another chart) would be done by us and not the original collector/creator of the dataset. Unbeknownst to me, I had already done ...

  I am breaking up my self-assessment into seven parts corresponding to the seven suggested categories; I will start by listing the category in bold and, following in my classmate, Brooke’s 1 , footsteps, I will list the suggested skills and whether I think this is a strength or a weakness. I’ll try my best to not make this too dry for all those involved.