Overarching Narrative

[mhamilt]

One missing element that would do a lot to tie the lesson together is an Overarching Narrative. Something similar to Nelle's Pipeline in the Shell Novice.

There is a similar problem with the Python Inflammation lesson, seen in issue 887.

Though the dataset of EEBO is demonstrative, I think it could still be integrated into a story. This would avoid re-writing material and sourcing another data set.

[mhamilt]

Collecting together the examples and challenges of the lesson here is a potential framework for a narrative.

Narrative

A Researcher needs to collect together multiple data sets of Early English Books. Part of their research will require creating a visualisation to better demonstrate distribution of book title by author by place

At the same time they need to:

• Fulfill Requests for book lists by specific authors in specific years?
• provide a list of books to an archivist to try and fill in missing details for specific literature?
  • sermons in certain areas in certain years?

Given the nature of the data set, it highly suggestive that the Research is either

• required to liaise with a Centre for Research Collections

OR

• Works as an archivist, librarian or within some centre for historic cultural research.

Breakdown

As part of the narrative there should also be a breakdown

In order to to do this, the Researcher needs to:

• gather the tools to with with the data (Lessons 1, 2)
• look at data first, before they can work with it. (Lessons 2)
• get some stats on the data (Lesson 2)
• Double check the data is clean (Lesson 4)
• Consolidate data sets (Lesson 5)
• Filter data by some criteria (Lesson 3)
• Automate this workflow across multiple criteria (Lesson 6)
• Visualise Data (Lessons 7, 8)
• Pass on this data set so their work is reproducible? (Lesson 9)

I have no background in this kind of research, so input from someone within this field should hopefully lend a little verisimilitude