On October 23rd, 2019, we had a data literacy Check-in meeting to share challenges and what’s working and what isn’t in developing data literacy. Here’s notes and scroll down for the recording.
Resources shared:
- David Lazers work on text mining of social media posts in post disaster settings
- List of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s research on networks
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vsj2slIAAAAJ&hl=en
- HDX Data completness grid
Topics for Large Group Discussion
- Strategic Lessons (Heather/Katelyn)
- What data literacy interventions have you tried and that didn’t work? What did you learn from that? Did you tweak the approach and try again.
- How do you achieve buyin
- Working in Marginalised Communities (Dirk/Lisa)
- https://crowd2map.wordpress.com/author/janettz/
- https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-08-03_crowd2map_tanzania_putting_rural_tanzania_on_the_map_with_the_help_of_a_hot_micr
- ‘How is your research going to benefit me?’: bringing findings back to communities in Ghana –
- Leave Your Potatoes at Home – Sex Workers, Data and combatting police violence – https://www.fabriders.net/potatoes/
- Questions to Ask Frequently when working with Data and Marginalised Communities – https://www.fabriders.net/qafs/
Helpful Data Literacy Resources
Data literacy resources people have used recently
- This is a link to an example of data completeness that HDX are working on – https://data.humdata.org/group/afg. It’s in its early stages and something MapAction are helping to understand further
- Data curious : we published exercises here – https://www.preparecenter.org/content/data-culture-data-playbook-beta#overlay-context=content/data-essentials-data-playbook-beta
- Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- Tech to Human Blog : https://techtohuman.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi
- Excel basics for free from Tech Soup https://page.techsoup.org/digital-skills-center
- http://nebigdatahub.org/ds4all/
- Handbook on data protection https://www.icrc.org/en/publication/handbook-data-protection-humanitarian-action
- Working with communities and protection https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/document/community-engagement-and-accountability-toolkit/
- https://www.hotosm.org/updates/mapping-with-indigenous-communities-for-disaster-relief-and-preparedness/
Here’s a video recording of our discussion
