Individual Homework No. 2

Class,

There will be three homeworks in DC - two individual and one group.

This is your second individual homework and involves relatively low-tech DC on individuals' locations. Follow the instructions below step by step.

Assignment Instructions:

1. Form a Whatsapp group with your group mates. 2. Whenever you travel or visit different places as part of your everyday work, share your location to the Whatsapp group.

For example - if you are visiting an ATM, your office, a grocery store, the local mall etc., then send the WhatsApp group a message saying: "ATM, [share of location here]."

Ideally, you should share a handful of locations every day. Do this DC exercise for a week. Its possible you may repeat-share certain locations.

P.S. I'll assume you have a smartphone with google maps enabled on it to share locations with.

3. Once this exercise is completed export the WhatsApp chat history of DC group to a text file. To do this, see below:

Go to WhatsApp > Settings > Chat history > Email Chat > Select the chat you want to export.

4. Your data file should look like in this:

28/02/17, 7:17 pm - aashish pandey: location: https://maps.google.com/?q=17.463869,78.367403
28/02/17, 7:17 pm - aashish pandey: ATM

P.S. As you can see, if you have any queries or issues running this thing, reach out to Pandey ji first.

5. Now compile this data in a tabular format. Your data should have these columns -

a - Sender Name

b - Time

c - Latitude

d - Longitude

e - Type of place

6. Now comes the deliverable part. Remember this is an individual assignment even though you need your group's help to form and export the WhatsApp chat history.

Extract your locations from the chat history table and plot it on google maps. You can use the Spatial DC code we used on this list of latitude and longitude co-ordinates or use leaflet() package in R to do the same.

Remember: you should extract and map only your own locations, not that of your team-mates. They will do for theirs.

7. Deliverable: A Markdown file that shows the code you used to plot your locations over a week.

Analyze your own movements over a week *AND* record your observations about your travels as a story that connects these locations together.

8. Deadline: 19-March-2017 (Sunday) midnight. Sudha will make a dropbox where you can share the markdown documents as html files.

9. Submission Format: Individual submissions only. Name your html file as 'your-ISB-ID-number DC HW 2.htm' Inside the html file, introduce yourself with name, city, ISB ID number etc in the first paragraph.

That's it for this simple exercise, folks. Any Queries etc, feel free to contact me.

Sudhir