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On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series; The Creative Series; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series; The Solo Series; The Interactive Series; The Publication Series (which is in a light blue rounded box) 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, Arguing, and communciating with data. These make up the key components of archaeological data literacy for the program and these resource aim to reinforce” 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; Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines; and Commucicating is in black corressponding to a circular laptop icon with waves going out in white lines

Pubs, no drinks included – Publications that cultivate data literacy

February 17, 2025 by Paulina Przystupa

For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Publication Series where we use the format of the publication to highlight important aspects of data literacy. We do this because reading and writing language are foundational to data literacy. That’s because they help us understand “what aspects of the world” (Bhargava […]

This decorative image includes snippets of mastheads or titles from the magazine issue the article references. These are stacked in three rows. The first is an article headline with authors that reads "Introduction to the Special Section" with authors names "Sara Ayers-Rigsby and Sarah H. Kansa underneath. This is black text on a white background. Below that in blue text on an orange marbled background it reads "Making Field schools more accessible: Learning and building from current programs" this is the name for the special section overall. Below that is the the title and other information for the magazine this comes from. "The SAA archaeological record" and under that it says "November 2024 Volume 24 Number 5" indicating the specifics of the publication

The AAI in the November 2024 issue of tSAR

December 5, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

If you’re looking for some new publications from Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) staff, check out the November 2024 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record. This magazine is a five-times-a-year publication by the Society for American Archaeology and the November issue includes articles by AAI staff and many others working to improve accessibility in field school […]

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