We’re happy to announce the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) first Table of Contents (TOC). The TOC is a preview of our existing and future Data Stories. And we designed this handy resource to outline data stories you can incorporate in classes now or in the future.
News
What are Artober and ArchInk?
This post was updated in 2025. Artober is a limited-duration, thematic-inspiration, art project. It’s a lot like other thematic months, like MerMay, or creative intentions such as the 100 Days project. The main difference is that it happens during October. In the United States, this coincides with National Arts and Humanities Month in the United States, […]
Winning them over to the data side – An ARF workshop on Data lit and viz
Paulina guest lectured for the students of the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) Peralta Hacienda Historical Park field school about Data Literacy (Data Lit) and Data Visualization (Data Viz).
Digital Data Dangers, DENIED!
A few weeks ago, Meghan, our Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Interpretation and Public Engagement, (who’s a bit of an #ethics nerd) attended a training session organized by the Data Hazards project. This facilitator training taught how to run sessions with the project’s Data Hazards labels — think of them as like warning labels on household […]
Demographics and data stories
While we’ve mentioned our non-fiction book club, Of Mycenaean Men, we’re also preparing A Pun Goes Here: A Fiction Book Club. A Pun Goes Here will have a similar structure as Of Mycenaean Men, but will bring together a collection of 12 works of fiction to cultivate data literacy in archaeology.
Act 6: Publishing our stories
We had a busy spring here at the Data Literacy Program (DLP). Between publishing more articles, here on The Alexandria Archive’s News, and getting two data stories published for public use, we’ve done a lot in this second quarter of 2022. But beyond what we write about, what have we done recently?
