Today's objectives focused largely on linking one form of media with another, namely the video lecture into an infographic. To do this, we had an example of a TEDTalk turned into an infographic (Stanton's "How to Create a Great Story" rendered into an infographic by Hueck and Quick). We also used McCandles' video text "The Beauty of Visualized Data" explaining the process and benefits of making information visible (rather than textual like a book or audible like a podcast or radio program).
To help us understand data, or the subject that we represent in all these various ways, I asked you to use the Google Doc to examine one of McCandles claims, that the old analogy "Data is the new oil" should be changed to "Data is the new soil." Returning to discussion as a class, we noted that
- each analogy involved a kind of searching /digging/seeking for information that involved a certain amount of labor (and getting dirty)
- The value, accessibility and priority of data changed slightly.
- We also identified that the "final product" of each analogy was different.
- Specifically, that the initial analogy [data as oil] suggests that data is the final and valuable end-product,
- while McCandles' analogy [data as soil] suggests that data is only the starting point for the finished product.
I then asked you to create and explain your own analogies and was impressed by the results and how well-thought out your explanations were. I was also pleased that, when I challenged your analogies or offered alternatives, you readily defended your choices. Very smart.
Some of the analogies you came up with:
- data as water
- data as human development
- data as cosmetics
- data as a trash bin
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