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Nov 16::

Before Class
Read:
- 2nd part of chapter on 'data' by Casey Reas and Ben Fry

Do:
- Clone Week 10 example codes on XML and JSON from GitHub
- Design an XML file to store data about something you collect (books, music, etc). Write a program to draw the data to the display window. Zip up files and email me your results label your zip file HW11_lastname_firstname.zip
- Begin A2 assignment by selecting your data set. You may either:
1) work on the kinship data, by selecting a figure and communicating with the anchor SSHIS student to solidify the data you need to visualize meaningful, quantifyable data that ideally communicates relationship, but may also track data over time +/or space. OR
2) select a dataset encoded by XML or JSON from one of the following sites:

  • NOAA
  • National Phenology Network see:the download data page (note: you may need to set up an account with nature's notebook to access this data).
  • DataSF
  • data.gov

    • Other potential sources and lists can be found:
  • Real Time Data sources
  • On Reddit

    • Be prepared to present your data set to the class this week, and be familiar with how it is organized and what it is communicating. Have a step by step plan for what data you are going to visualize from your set and how.

    In Class
    - Work on JSON and XML
    - Review Week 10 example codes on XML and JSON if you haven't already.


    References
    - Branches in a Nutshell
    - Remote Branches
    - Basic Branching and Merging