Project Reminders

• Milestones and Deadlines
• Interview Forms
• Office hours (approx. once a week)

• Milestone 0: PITCH APPROVED
  - Does the pitch/hypothesis need refinement?
• Milestone 1: DATASETS NAILED DOWN, METHODOLOGY DEFINED AND BACKGROUND RESEARCH HAS BEGUN
  If you're building a dataset in Milestone 1 you've started collecting the data, ,you've decided on the variables, you probably have some rows of data already.
• Milestone 2: REPORTING IS WELL UNDERWAY, STRUCTURE OF THE STORY IS STARTING TO FORM
  OCT 30: Outline Due
• Milestone 3: REPORTING IS DONE, PRIMARY DATA ANALYSIS IS DONE (it doesn't have to be pretty, but you need to have arrived at some conclusions)
  Nov 20: First Draft Due
• Milestone 4: READER-FACING ASSETS ARE DONE
  Dec 6: Project Presentation
• Milestone 5: FINAL EDITS
  Dec 11: Final Draft Due

Important Dates
 

• OCT 30
  Outline Due
   
• Nov 20
  First Draft Due
   
• Dec 6
  Project Presentations
   
• Dec 11 - Final Draft Due

Interview forms

📌 pinned to courseworks AND slack

Two notes about data homeworks

• New Homework
• Homework Feedback
  (due Tuesday Oct 25)

New Homework

• 2 charts with a 👍 in every category
  • ​1 pandema flakes chart (you can use the one you made in class, but you may want to update it based on the feedback you recieve)
  • 1 chart from your reporting I project or any other data (you can use the congressional spending dataset or another one of your choice)
    
    
• Submit them one at a time using this form (which is also pinned to the top of the class slack 📌)
  
  
• If it is a Reporting I chart you want feedback on before the deadline for that project, slack me as soon as you submit it.

Feedback Responses

Reminder: Don't forget to respond to ⛔️, ❓and 🤯

Your response can be a rewrite of that section or a reflection or discussion in the comment to demonstrate that you understand thoroughly what the issue was and how to prevent it from happening again.
If you come to office hours to discuss, just write that in the comment and it will be considered resolved.

due: Tuesday Oct 25

Feedback Status

• [ x ] Diagnostic Assignment Feedback
• [ x ] Reverse engineer a story
• [ x ] Pre-pitch brainstorm
• [ x ] Selected pitches
• [ x ] OSINT/FOIA Feedback
  
  in progress (by EOD tomorrow)
• [  ] Data Assignment 2 - Exploratory Data viz
• [  ] Pitch Feedback (for not selected pitches)
  
  in progress (as you submit)
• [  ] Data Assignment 3 - Charts