Part 1: Peer Review
A .csv (comma-separated values) file is simply a text-based representation of a spreadsheet, where each line in the file indicates a row in the spreadsheet, and commas indicate where a new column should begin. For part 1, you will receive a .csv file to your e-mail. This email will be sent to you by Hayden or Emily no later than noon on Saturday, June 5. It will contain a list of 45 beliefs randomly pulled from the collective knowledge base generated from all 3 of the knowledge graph submissions. It will be your job to decide whether you agree or disagree with each of the beliefs.
We recommend using Microsoft Excel to view and edit the .csv (if you don’t have Excel, Google Sheets would also work); however we ask that you submit your finished work in .csv format, not custom spreadsheet formats such as Excel’s .xlsx or .xls. We also recommend that upon receiving the file, you open it in a text editor first in order to familiarize yourself with the .csv format of data storage.
The screenshot below shows an example .csv file with just 10 statements as it appears in a text editor. Note that the first row of the file contains the column names. The two empty columns that you will fill in (“Agree” and “Disagree”) are represented by the two commas at the end of each row.
Your job is to mark an “X” in one of the two empty columns labeled “Agree” or “Disagree” for each row of belief data in the .csv file. After being filled in, the .csv might look like the screenshot below (notice how half of the previously empty columns now have an “X”). (Note that the X’s have been filled in arbitrarily for this demonstration; you should fill them in based on your knowledge of each topic.)
It will be easiest to use Excel to edit the file. After opening the file in Excel, you will see a rows/columns representation of the data, something like this:
You might want to expand the column width so that you can see all of the text (just click and drag the edge of the column header to increase its width):
When filling in the “Agree” and “Disagree” columns, make sure that for each row, you put exactly one X in either “Agree” or “Disagree”. The screenshot below shows a possible valid submission (again, X’s filled in arbitrarily for this demonstration).
Points will be lost if both “Agree” and “Disagree” are marked for a single row, like below:
Likewise, points will be lost if neither “Agree” or “Disagree” is marked for a single row, like below:
When saving your file, make sure you use the .csv format, rather than saving in one of Excel’s custom formats, since you will not be able to submit any format other than .csv. When saving as .csv, you may see a notification box like the one shown below:
This is just Excel being overly cautious; nothing of relevance to this assignment will be lost by saving in this format. Just select “Yes” or “Ok” if presented with this option.
You should use what you have learned in class this quarter to inform your decisions. You will not be graded on the accuracy of your judgements, but you should do your best to be as accurate as possible.
Below is the criteria for determining whether to mark “Agree” or “Disagree”:
Mark “Agree” if, based on what you have learned in class this quarter, or based on your knowledge beyond the class if applicable, you judge that the belief in question is unambiguously true.
Mark “Disagree” if, based on what you have learned in class this quarter, or based on your knowledge beyond the class if applicable, you judge that the belief in question is false, or presented in an ambiguous manner.
It is possible that you may see one or more beliefs in your .csv file that you contributed via your own knowledge graph submission; if this is the case, simply make your judgment as you would any other belief.
For this part of the assignment, you will submit your edited .csv file to Canvas. Please do not send your submission as a reply to the e-mail you will receive.
Part 2: Reflection
For this part of the assignment, you will write and submit a short reflection (at least 150 words; no upper limit) on the knowledge graph assignments. You may want to discuss the process you used to initially construct your knowledge graph for Assignment 1, how you decided what changes to make in Assignments 2 and 3, your experience interacting with the collectively generated knowledge graph in Assignment 4, your experience evaluating your peers’ content in the first part of this assignment, and especially whether any aspects of the knowledge graph assignments changed your perspective on the topics of this course.
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