Recommended Reading
We recommend some of the following documents and websites, but the particular ones that you choose will depend on the specific details of your project.
- Gray, D. E., 2004. Doing Research in the Real World. London. SAGE Publications.
- Kitchin, R., 2014. The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. SAGE.
- Ratti, Carlo, and Matthew Claudel 2016, The City of Tomorrow Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life (Yale University Press, 2016) Ch. 1 pp. 3-13
- Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, “The Rise of Big Data,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2013, pp. 28-40.
- Oliver Bates and Adrian Friday. “Beyond Data in the Smart City: Repurposing Existing Campus IoT.” IEEE Pervasive Computing (Volume: 16 , Issue: 2 , April-June 2017)
- Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson, “Introduction,” in “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron, (Lisa Gitelman, ed.), pp. 1-14, The MIT Press, 2012.
- Shannon Mattern, Methodolatry and the Art of Measure. A New Wave of Urban Data Science. Places Journal. Nov 2013
Participatory and Co-Design
- Merholz, M (2013)The Double Diamond Model of Product Definition and Design
- Open Design Now
- Muller, M J (2003) Participatory design: the third space in HCI, chapter in Human-computer interaction: Development process, 4235.
- Spinzzi, C (2005) The methodology of participatory design, Technical Communication, 52(2), 163-174.
- Druin, A (2002) The role of children in the design of new technology, Behaviour and information technology, 21(1), 1-25.
- Grocki, M (2014) How to Create a Customer Journey Map
- Steen, M. (2011). Tensions in human-centred design. CoDesign, 7(1), 45–60. http://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2011.563314
- BUUR, J., & MATTHEWS, B. (2008). PARTICIPATORY INNOVATION. International Journal of Innovation Management, 12(03), 255–273. http://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919608001996
- 15 ways to test you Minimal Viable PRoduct https://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/11/12/15-ways-test-minimum-viable-product/, Christopher Bank 2014, The Next Web.
Designing for Change
- Tactical Tech: Info-activism
- Theory of Change
- Design Justice: Zines 1-3
Thinking about Socio-technical Change
- Elizabeth Shove (2014) Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change, Contemporary Social Science, 9:4, 415-429, DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2012.692484
- Head, B. W., & Alford, J. (2015). Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management. Administration and Society, 47(6), 711–739. http://doi.org/10.1177/0095399713481601
Ethics, Privacy and Data Management
- Gray, D E (2014) Research Ethics, Chapter 4, Doing research in the real world. Los Angeles, SAGE.
- Information Commissioner’s Office (2012) Anonymisation Code of Practice
- University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Sciences Research Ethics
- UK Research Integrity Office Code of Practice for Research.
- University of Edinburgh Research Under the General Data Protection Regulation
- University of Edinburgh Research Data Management Policy
Data Visualisation
- Few, S (2009) Now You See It, Analytics Press
- Tufte, E R (1983) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press
- Makulec, A (ND) Anatomy of a Graphic, chapter 14 of Data + Design
- Underwood, J (2013) Data Visualization Best Practices (on Slideshare)
- School of Data From Data to Diagrams
- GOOD Infographics
- Visualisations that make no sense: WTF Visualizations
- Tactical Tech Guide to Visualisation Tools
- Resources for Data Driven Journalism
Data Vis Tools and Tutorials
FOR MORE COMPLETE LIST SEE TOOLS PAGE or LEARN
- Google Fusion Tables
- RAW
- DataWrapper
- Benjamin Bach’s list of datavis tools
- Miriam Posner’s list of datavis tools
