Activity #3: Extraction Design

Overview

• Type: Meetup with your team during the coaching session
• Goal: prepare team presentation with screen shots from the website/API that illustrate the design choices
• Presentation specifics
  • please target a presentation time of 3 minutes per team (+ 2 minutes discussion)
  • please pick one person to present; others can contribute in the discussion

Preparation before the activity

• Before the session, carefully reread the relevant sections in “Fields of Gold”.

Deliverables

During the coaching session, start preparing a presentation, covering

• Title page: Team number & brief description of (updated) motivation for data context
• Slide 1: Which information to extract from which pages/endpoints? (Challenge #2.1)
• Slide 2: Which seeds to use as a starting point of the data collection? (Challenge #2.2)
• Slide 3: At which frequency to extract information (Challenge #2.3)
  • please include a calculation of your study’s feasible sample size.
• Slide 4: How to process the information during the extraction? (Challenge #2.4)

Throughout, provide details on how your extraction design balances technical feasibility and exposure to potential legal and ethical risks (cf. Table 3 in “Fields of Gold”).

• Please include the calculation of your study’s feasible sample size in a separate Excel sheet.

• Please upload the presentation (as a PDF) and Excel sheet (as an Excel file) in one zip file, at the latest a day before the presentation sessions (see schedule).

Throughout the coaching session, please solicit the feedback of your coach.