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Listicles and Literacy – The Aggregative Series to promote data literacy

March 2, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series; The Creative Series; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series (which is in a light blue rounded box); The Solo Series; The Interactive Series; The Publication Series with each series on its own row; to the left is a grey box with text primarily in black. The text reads “Reading data involves understanding what data is, and what aspects of the world it represents. Working with data involves acquiring, cleaning, and managing it. Analyzing data involves filtering, sorting, aggregating, comparing, and performing other such analytic operations on it. Arguing with data involves using data to support a larger narrative intended to communicate a message to a particular audience. Bhargava, Rahul, et al. “Data murals: Using the arts to build data literacy.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12.3 (2016). Throughout this document, data stories are aligned to show how they can be used to reinforce Reading, Working, Analyzing, and Arguing with data.” Reading is in dark blue matching a circular book spine icon to the left of the text that is in white lines on the blue background; Working is in light blue matching a tabbed planner-style circular icon in white lines on the same light blue; Analyzing is in lavender corresponding to a circular computer icon in white lines on the same lavender; and Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines

This is the series we’re highlighting in this post

For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re introducing our Aggregative Series. While you may have misread that as our aggressive series, this series aggregates existing resources that teach archaeological data literacy. Currently, these will act as both recommendations for existing work from our staff  and a Data Story, guiding groups through these resources in an engaging way.

Data Stories in the Aggregative series provide curated selections of archaeology and heritage-related content outside of regular academic resources. Our initial Data Stories in this series focus on fiction and non-fiction books. We organized these into three book clubs: one for non-fiction readers, one for fiction readers, and one for readers of comics. Although we hope that all readers want to read everything we suggest, each of these leverages different literacies.

We designed these resources to familiarize people with the breadth and depth of archaeological influence on society and culture.  We hope to expand these to include Data Stories that focus on music, art, and virtual experiences. Such work highlights how people can practice data literacy in may ways. 

These recommended materials are presented as resource guides focused on DLP identified themes. For example, Of Mycenaean Men has three thematic questions: 

  1. What are data? 
  2. What is archaeology?
  3. What is the impact of archaeological data on modern human society?

These help relate the books back to archaeological data literacy. However, you can adapt each Data Story for use in a variety of settings, with resources from different lists combined to suit individual needs. For example, while there are four books in each theme for Of Mycenaean Men, one can use just one book from theme or only read the books from one theme. Or mix-and-match them according to what you or your community is interested in!

Beyond the resource guides, we have included keyword search guides and an adaptation of one of our Tutorial Series Data Stories to add a more technical approach to these works. For our book clubs, we  created a book data set that audiences can engage with if they want to know more about the books. 

A book that looks like a neural network with law data social visual physical cultural media digital and health written on it

Just a few of the kinds of literacy people need now

Beyond technical skills, Data Stories within the Aggregative Series cultivate archaeological data literacy by practicing reading, working with, arguing, and communicating with data. All the Data Stories in this series provide great places to read and work with data. Specifically, understanding data from a narrative, rather than a table or other structured source, is its own skill. In addition, the search tutorial helps people  practice how to find real, usable, archaeological data. 

These are great Data Stories for cultivating the arguing and communicating aspects of data literacy. We hope that audiences to engage deeply with the material guided by our recommended search terms and discussion questions. Talking about these with others, or writing out responses, are great ways to practice your arguing and communicating literacy skills.  

We hope you enjoy the works in our Aggregative Series! We’ll be sharing these Data Stories soon, so for those of you with a love of lists, keep your eyes open and ready – we should be releasing our alpha test of Of Mycenaean Men soon.

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