Improvements: Data Discovery

[njlyon0]

Summary

Teaching this module on Thursday (tomorrow) and need a dedicated place to store any discussion on useful improvements

Sub-Tasks

• [x] Teach this module (see #31 )
• [x] Identify improvements / desired changes

Resources

• Module link

[njlyon0]

10/08/2024 Design Team Meeting

Met and discussed this topic with the data team and the consensus was we need to survey students for more granular feedback (see #34 ) but there were some things we a priori felt confident identifying as areas for improvement.

Data inventory prep work was artificially simple

• All groups wound up making their own custom / more nuanced data inventories
• Should instead share our custom / more nuanced template with them for the outset with the caveat that they might not need all that information at the outset of the project
• Also, to increase the benefit of this module for asynchronous people we should embed a static copy of the data inventory (or a more detailed description of it) in the course website (so that it isn't saying "take this template you don't have access to")