Quarry Hill Unhealthy Area, 1900_s

Group Portfolio

In your group, produce a portfolio that responds to your selected research collection. This collection will be the same collection that you selected for Assessment 2. Again, the overarching question your portfolio must address is: How does your historical collection help us better understand our current condition? Your group will need to determine the precise research questions you will explore – you will have already begun to consider research questions in Assessment 2. Some questions that may prompt your selection of research questions include:

• How does my collection relate to my own lived experiences?
• How might others’ experiences of this collection differ from my own? Why might this be the case?
• What kinds of media does my collection include? What are the implications of each of these media forms for my understanding of the collection’s content?
• How might the use of new media help me gain fresh perspectives on my collection?
• What have I learned from this collection? How have I learned this?
• How do my questions about my selected collection relate to new media, exactly?

The portfolio must consist of a sustained and iterative focus on your collection – we want to see that you have considered your collection using a variety of methods, processes, and perspectives. Include links to relevant datasets, URLs, and other materials as needed. We will expect references to relevant academic literature throughout (with citations formatted in Leeds Harvard style).

Below is a list of your portfolio’s minimum requirements:

• 1 contextual literature review of no more than 800 words, not including references and notes.
• 1 instance of automated or manual data scraping, with the resulting dataset being used for statistical analysis (refer especially to the workshop activities from Weeks 3, 4, and 20).
• 3-5 data visualisations, in forms of your choosing (refer especially to the workshop activities from Weeks 5 and 20). *Note: You may repurpose the visualisations used in your Group Video for this criterium. If you do so, you must ensure that these visualisations are adjusted according to markers' feedback, and that they clearly fit within the overarching 'story' of your portfolio. Please do not submit exactly the same visualisations for both assessments, as this poses an academic integrity issue.
• 1 narrative, map, or infographic account related to your data, in a form of your choosing (refer especially to the workshop activities from Weeks 8, 17 and 18).
• 1 artistic representation of your data, using creative coding (refer especially to the workshop activities from Week 10). Have fun with this one! Get wacky! You can choose to show your data in an explicit way, or in a totally abstract way.
• All elements of your portfolio must be hosted on one group member’s University website, which should reflect proficiency in HTML and CSS to the level reviewed in class (refer especially to Week 2).

All material you refer or link to must be available to see for at least six months after the submission deadline (so think carefully about what you link to!). You must adhere to university standards related to content, ethics, and copyright.
You are responsible for determining how best to divide the labour of this portfolio’s creation within your group.
This group portfolio is worth 40% of the module marks; all group members will receive the same mark. It is due on Tuesday, 25 April 2023, no later than 14:00.