Notes from Meeting 1 (April 19, 2023)

[ran-codes]

Proposed deliverables

• Story 1: life exepctacny are a useful measure to describe ....
  • a group of people are grown today
  • if things don't change... these people
  • what is it?
  • why is it important?
  • explain the contirbution (concept that at younger ages affect LE much more than older person dying)... deaths in youth.
• Followup 1: trends in LE in the last decades (focusing on philadelphia)
  • how its going up
  • event
  • stangant
  • event
  • covid
  • it drops
• Followup 2: disparities in LE by race
  • drop temporality and focus on cross sectionalal
  • what happened in COVID? the drops were not the same
  • stratfy story based on murder, homocide, covid
• Followup 3: spatial distirbution
  • ZIP codes determines how long you live?

Timeline and next steps

• Ready around September for align launch of dashboard
• Ran/Anuj will do research and report back on: 1) examples of scrollies and 2) methods to build scrollies. The overall goal of this report is to:
  • Demo some scrollies to give the team an understanding of what this format is
  • Give a high-level primer on how they are made
  • Provide the team with the context so that content creators can start thinking about ideas for deliverables.
• Setup a GitHub repo for async collaboration. (add ascheeres + matodd-beep)
• Meet again 5/31/23