Saturday, July 1, 2023

The Alexandria Archive Institute Digital Data Stories Series

 [First posted in AWOL 6 Octobere 2022, updated 1 July 2023]
 

Welcome to the Digital Data Stories (DDS) Project from the Alexandria Archive Institute! We’re happy to provide these educational resources, which can be used for personal practice or integrated into a course.

The DDS Project promotes a focus in archaeological education on digital data literacy. These exercises, guides, and tutorials teach principles of digital data literacy alongside methods in archaeological analysis and combine different ways of learning and literacy components to illustrate the confluence of science and humanities-based investigations in data collected about the past.

This approach promotes multiple levels of engagement through reading, working with, analyzing, arguing, and communicating with archaeological data to ethically explore the data we have about the past. In these resources, users will utilize a variety of data, from published open-access data sets to popular books to their own belongings to cultivate and practice archaeological data literacy. 

We’re happy to provide you with these educational resources, which can be used for personal practice or integrated into a course.

  • The Fall 2022 Data Stories Table of Contents!
    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.
  • Gabbing about Gabii: Going from Notes to Data to Narrative
    This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in ceramics, the Roman Republic, or the archaeology of the Italian Peninsula. Users should have a basic understanding of archaeological data types, but little previous experience is required.
  • Cow-culating your data with spreadsheets and R
    This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in zooarchaeology, the Neolithic, or Central European archaeology. Users should have a basic understanding of what a spreadsheet is, but little previous experience is required.

 

  

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