Jan 23. Welcome to Info 3370 / 5371!
No preparation is needed before this class.
- Make a name tag! We encourage you to put your name and pronouns
- Meet others at your table
- What was something fun for you over the break?
- What are you looking forward to this semester?
- Help us make our first seating chart: tinyurl.com/Seats3370
Exercise
At each table, we have placed a visualization of inequality. Discuss:
- What is compelling about the figure?
- What do you find confusing?
- How would you explain this figure to someone who hasn’t seen it?
Then we will discuss it as a class. Not every table has the same figure, so we will pick some groups randomly to walk the rest of us through each figure.
Are you an observer outside the class? Here are our three figures
- Figure 1 from Piketty and Saez (2014)
- Figure 2 from Schaefer and Edin (2013)
- Figure 1 from U.S. Census Bureau (2022)
Next class
See the next page to see how to prepare before Wednesday’s class.