Training Digital Skills
( at Research Platforms )
( for Interactive DataViz )
Errol Lloyd
Research Platforms
- Researchers (PhDs) Training Researchers (PhD+Faculty)
- Building Community
Research Platforms
Ethos
- Fellow Researcher who learnt the skill "yesterday" is best person to teach it "today"
- Best teacher is a "helper",
- who learnt the skill "this morning".
- and who is there not to "correct" but to "hold the student's hand as they figure it out themselves"
Interactive DataViz
- Data + Research expressed through
- interactive
- explorable
- visual
- applications
Training Interactive DataViz
The thirty spokes unite in the one hub;
but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.
Or ... the Tao of Digital Literacy for Researchers
Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the
people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!'
The leader does nothing, but all the action (somehow) depends on them
With good leadership, the people feel that they did it all themselves
Tao Te Ching - verse 11
Tao Te Ching - verse 17
Training Interactive DataViz
The trainer is irrelevant ...
Except to the extent that they need to make themselves irrelevant
Or ... the Tao of Digital Literacy for Researchers
DataViz / Coding / Writing
is Hard ... is Design
(Good)
No Formulae
No Rules
Many Requirements
Design
Creative
Iterative
M Bostock, https://youtu.be/fThhbt23SGM
Exploring + Solving Design Mazes:
Fundamental Unit of Training
-
Vibe in training room
- Equality + Collaboration (not correcting)
- Iteration + Play (not getting it right)
- Live Coding Demos
-
Challenge Based Learning
- Provide tasks / mini-projects
- Allow attendees to solve on their own
-
Empowerment
- Allow attendees to FEEL the achievement of making something that does something
Interactive DataViz Apps
- Many simple parts
- Stitched together into something greater than the sum of its parts
<div style="background-color: 'red'"></div>slider.on('input', function(){
div.style('background-color', 'red');
});How get Attendees to the End of the Maze?
- Reduce each part to
- simplest - most intuitive - funniest - most functional concepts + Demonstration
- No jargon - No Demand of technical knowledge
- Structure your workshop around a series of
- Fun + Functional (things that do things) Challenges
- Where people have TIME to finish and explore
- No matter how Small / Trivial the product
Examples of Fun(ctional)
Challenges / Mazes
Credit: Isabell Kiral-Kornek (@Isa_Kiko)
How get Attendees to the End of the Maze?
-
Vibe in training room
- Equality + Collaboration (not correcting)
- Iteration + Play (not getting it right) + Live Coding Demos
-
Make elements Simple + Funny
- simplest - most intuitive - funniest - most functional concepts
- No jargon - No Demand of technical knowledge
-
Explore
- Fun + Functional (things that do things) Challenges
- Allow attendees to solve/iterate/play on their own
-
Empowerment
- Allow attendees to FEEL the achievement of making something that does something
Thank You
Training for Digital Skills for Interactive DataVIz
By Errol Lloyd
Training for Digital Skills for Interactive DataVIz
Powering up your 2018 (data skills) training (6 Feb 2018)
