Data Scramble academic 40 min
W1D1Sa
What does this class actually look like — and how easily can a machine draw the picture?
Data Portraits
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You are 10 newsrooms, each assigned one slice of this class's life. Slack is your wire service. ChatGPT is your art desk.
Mission
Poll the whole room and turn the messy results into ONE clean visual about your assigned aspect of class life.
Finish Line
One AI-rendered visual (chart, word cloud, scatter, clock, or quote wall) plus a 30-second presentation of the single most surprising thing in it.
Team Roles
Attacker
Roam, recruit, harvest
- Leave your channel and move through rival channels — answer their polls fast to keep the whole room flowing.
- Recruit: pull classmates back to vote on YOUR group’s poll. Fight for attention — the music is loud, be louder.
- Bring data home: every response you trigger is a point. You are not meant to get everything — grab what you can before the klaxon.
Defender
Hold the channel, enforce the format
- Stay home and keep your group’s 2–3 polls alive — pin the format rule and answer every incoming question.
- Enforce the format: if people reply messy (“like 8 lol”), nudge them — clean input means a clean AI compile.
- Log and guard: capture every response, chase non-responders by DM, hand a clean thread to the compiler.
Exemplars
- Anki — powerful, intelligent flashcards
AnkiWeb
Gold-standard personal mastery system: active recall + spaced repetition. Validity proven by repeated solo testing, not by looking things up — the capstone’s whole logic.