Day 9, Mat115H

• Announcements:
  • No class Monday: Labor Day! Enjoy the holiday.
  • Next week, we'll be solidifying our own approach to achieving our mission. I'd like to have a mission statement and strategy by Friday. Perhaps you can be thinking of what we'd like to achieve and how we might achieve it for Wednesday.

    This should probably include thoughts on "intervention".

• Before we start: what did you think of Sis's, Monica, 505, etc. What impressions did you come away with?

• Today we present the results of our discussions with those who have gone before -- examples of projects that have already studied census tract 505 around the campus.
  • I understand that several of you had contact issues.
  • Some of you will be presenting preliminary reports, to be completed next week.
  In particular, we were interested in these issues:
  1. What did they do (or what are they doing): describe successes and failures
  2. What impact will/did their intervention have/had on 505?
  3. What can we learn from their project?
  4. What advice might they give us as we set off on our own project?
  Teams: Let's just go in this order. You'll have 8 minutes for your report.
  • Psychology and the hope metric (see Prof. Rachel Clark) -- Kara (and Kensey and Haley)
  • Public art and Little Free Libraries -- Melody, Grace, and Robin
  • Income inequality -- Marisa and Alli
  • Photography -- Betsy and Cassidy
  • History -- Emily and Sandra

• If we have some extra time, we'll take a look at a GoogleMaps app that I heard about yesterday, at an event for faculty that Mr. Neikirk sponsored.

Some Links:

• A cool tool to allow you to visualize the neighborhood on several census variables by census tract.
  Here's what may be a commercial version of the same thing? It's got a little more resolution. I'm checking with our library to see if we can have the professional access.
• Tract 505 ACS 2006-2010 census Profiles
• Map showing Census Tract 505
• Google Earth map of the tracts of Kentucky (505 is number 27302)
• What's the Matter With Eastern Kentucky?