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, […]
archaeology
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).
The Digital Data Stories Series
To help us organize our Data Stories the Data Literacy Program (DLP), we decided to organize the stories into seven series. We’ve mentioned this a few times and we thought it would be good to explain a bit more about what these series are and why we chose to do this.
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?
AAI Reads – Data Feminism
Welcome to AAI Reads!. This week, the book that we’re highlighting is Data Feminism. Written by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein in 2020, it’s a great introduction to how we can incorporate feminist practices into data literacy.
