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Out of the Spreadsheet & into the Community Rahul Bhargava, rahulb@mit.edu, @rahulbot Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 2 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Motivations Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 3 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Measuring Impact + = measurement data your project Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 4 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Measuring Impact Together + = measurement data your project definition collection Opportunities for participation! analysis presentation Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 5 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Going from Data to Story Together Asking Finding Finding a Telling Trying it Questions the Data Story Your Story Out Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 6 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Going from Data to Story Together: Example #1 Asking Finding Finding a Telling Trying it Questions the Data Story Your Story Out Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 7 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Asking Questions Together is Hard All the trees in Somerville, MA, USA Data from the city of Somerville Scraped by Rahul Bhargava Presented via Microsoft Excel Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 8 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Asking Questions Together with WTFcsv Presented via wtfcsv.databasic.io Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 9 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Going from Data to Story Together: Example #2 Asking Finding Finding a Telling Trying it Questions the Data Story Your Story Out Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 10 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Telling Your Story Together: Data Murals Created by youth from Groundwork Somerville, facilitated by Emily and Rahul Bhargava “The numbers tell a story” “Someone cared enough to do [the mural], and it benefits everyone” “I’ve never made [an infographic], now I totally feel like I could. I’m inspired.” Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 11 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

The Data Mural Process Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 12 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Make This Whole Process Participatory Asking Finding Finding a Telling Trying it Questions the Data Story Your Story Out • Brainstorming questions to ask • Looking for stories in data • Making a data storybook • Building data sculptures • Practice convincing diverse audiences • And more… Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 13 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Impact Data is an Opportunity Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 14 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed

Next Steps • Checkout datatherapy.org for more ideas • Contact me: rahulb@mit.edu, @rahulbot Out of the Spreadsheet & into Rahul Bhargava 15 the Community MIT Center for Civic Media TICTec 2016 rahulb@mit.ed