The data fair connects you with Master students in Design Informatics to collaboratively work on data visualization projects from Sept-December 2023. We invite external partners to share their real-world data with our students, collaborate on data analysis and visualization, and ideally end up with a project that you can share publicly. The collaboration is open to everyone with data: individuals or organizations, academics or not.
Check our project outcomes from past years.
We will held an open info-session on Friday, Sept 8, 4pm-4:30 on Teams to discuss any questions you might have. Click here to join the meeting, 9Cm9Vy.
The goal for the students is to chose a real-world dataset and an associated challenge for their course Data Science for Design that runs from October to December. Within that course, students will learn the basics of data analysis and visualization. Their assignment requires them to analyze a real-world data set and work on a visualization project that focuses on data exploration and the communication of findings through data visualization. Students will work in groups of three. Projects from past years can be found here.
In case of large numbers of project submissions, we prioritize projects in the area of climate action and the UN Sustainable development.
You will have the chance to work with motivated and creative students from a variety of backgrounds: graphic design, media, computer science, product design, etc. You will define a data challenge, i.e., an urgent problem or project you require help with around data analysis and visualization. You are invited to work with the students as close as you wish and attend our lectures and lab sessions (Thursdays 9am-1pm).
We hope that novel collaborations between you and the students and us will emerge. In the past, we had projects leading to published outcomes, continuing collaborations, and master dissertations.
We had worked with: NHS, Scottish Government, Marie Curie, NRS, National Libraries Scotland, Edinburgh City Council, The Peace Rep programme, University of Edinburgh, as well as private persons and companies.
The commitment from your side will be:
Students have 3 weeks to come up with an an individual analysis report (each student, hence 3 per group). Each report consists of an IPython notebook that includes python code and results of an exploratory analysis. Each report should investigate something different and will contain:
After these three weeks, students have 3 weeks to come up with some engaging form of presenting the data (group work). This end-piece should help communicating insights from or around the data to a specific audience. This will be shaped by what you think makes most sense for you and the data, but the students will have the final say over their brief. Some outputs might be: