Exercise 3: Wordpress post with Carto

Exercise 2

Due Wednesday September 13 by 12:30pm

First you should go through most of the intro and styling tutorials and explore others as needed on Carto Builder (which replaced Carto Editor) here: https://carto.com/learn/guides

Next, find an interesting spatial data set (or multiple data sets) and upload them to Carto. Consider what questions or data interest you – what might you explore eventually as a final project for this course? This exercise could be a way to get started brainstorming. Ideally your data set(s) will be from any corner of the web – Google for ideas and data, search city web sites.

Some good options are:

Berkeley Data Science Open Datasets: https://datascience.berkeley.edu/open-data-sets/

American Factfinder: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml Links to an external site.

San Francisco Open Data Portal: https://datasf.org/opendata/ Links to an external site.

Also feel free to use a data set you’re already familiar with from another project. If all else fails, you can connect an existing Carto data source, like you do in the academy tutorials, but we’d prefer it if you can find something novel elsewhere.

Using your uploaded data set(s), create at least two maps with Carto. Adhere to the best practices you have learned from the Academy tutorials – including thoughtful use of colors, data, and labels.

To be able to embed your map in Wordpress you should refer to this guide: https://carto.com/learn/guides/publish-share/publishing-and-sharing

Create a blog post on your Wordpress site, embed your interactive Carto maps in this blog post, and include a write-up discussing at a minimum the following elements:

• Where is the data from and how did you acquire it?
• What is the data about and why is it interesting?
• What stories do your maps tell?
• Who is your audience and how can they benefit from these visualizations?
• Why are these visualizations important or useful?
• Explain your process creating these maps with Carto: what did you do, what design decisions did you make, and why?

The word limit for this blog post is flexible, but we would expect something with at least 500+ words.

Finally, submit the URL of your published blog post via bcourses.