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 # Project Design 
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-The purpose of this workshop is to guide you through exploring the spatial aspect of your data so as to tell a spatial story. Depending on your data and overarching project, you will begin with a varying degree of certainty around what story you want to tell and how you will go about composing it. Therefore, we will begin by asking some questions to articulate the objectives, constraints, and resources you are working with. This, in turn, will help you decide on an output format and the best tools to make it happen. 
+The purpose of this workshop is to guide you through exploring the spatial aspect of your data so as to tell a story. Depending on your data and overarching project, you will begin with a varying degree of certainty around what story you want to tell and how you will go about composing it. Therefore, we will begin by asking some questions to articulate the objectives, constraints, and resources you are working with. This, in turn, will help you decide on an output format and the best tools to make it happen. 
 
-As you reflect on the following questions, it can be helpful to write down your answers to refer to later. If that sounds useful for you, a Project Design Worksheet may be downloaded here:
+As you reflect on the following questions, it can be helpful to write down your answers to refer to later. If useful for you, a Project Design Worksheet may be downloaded here:
 [Microsoft .docx version](./project-design-worksheet.docx) |  [Text file version](./project-design-worksheet.rtf)
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 ## 1. Articulating Objectives
 The first question to ask yourself is: *What are my overarching project objectives?* If your spatial story is just one aspect of a larger project, how will your spatial story contribute to the project as a whole? 
 
-  - What are you trying to show spatially? For example, change over time? A voyage, itinerary, or historical timeline? The location of a city, town, country, or research area? The density or dispersal of an attribute across different locales? <!-- if you wanna do this, then you might do this -- link page / output, method -->
+  > - What are you trying to show spatially? For example, change over time? A voyage, itinerary, or historical timeline? The geographic location of a city, country, or research area? The density or dispersal of an attribute across different locales? 
 
 
 
 ## 2. Identifying Constraints 
-Constraints, such as those around time and resources, limit what you can do. However, by identifying your constraints before beginning a project you actually enable yourself to explore within reason, taking on only as much as you can handle. Below are some questions to get you thinking about what constraints you may have. Feel welcome to jot down those specific to your project in your worksheet. 
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-  - What is your timeframe/timeline? Are there benchmarks for progress, ie, when you'd like to get various stages done by? To whom are you accountable?
+Constraints, such as those around time and resources, limit what you can do. However, identifying your constraints _before_ beginning a project  enables you to explore within reason, taking on only as much as you can handle. Below are some questions to get you thinking about what constraints you may working within. Feel welcome to jot down those specific to your project in your worksheet. 
 
-  - Are you working alone or within a team? If working with others, it can be helpful to identify who is responsible for what before you begin. 
+  > - What is your timeframe? Is there an expected timeline for your progress, e.g., specific deadlines for various stages of your project output? To whom are you accountable?
 
+  > - Are you working alone or within a team? If working with others, it can be helpful to identify who is responsible for what, how material will be shared, and at what stages feedback will be given and incorporated. 
 
-  - Is your spatial story for your own project, or are there client specifications you must take into consideration? 
+  > - Is your spatial story for your own research, or are there client specifications you must take into consideration? 
 
-  - What skills do you have that are relevant to the project you are undertaking? Do you have time/interest/capacity to learn new skills? Reflecting on just how much energy you can put into the project at hand will guide you in choosing what tools/platforms to construct your spatial story with. 
+  > - What skills do you have that are relevant to the project you are undertaking? Do you have time/interest/capacity to learn new skills? Reflecting on just how much energy you can put into the project at hand will guide you in choosing what tools/platforms to use in constructing your spatial story.
 
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+_The next steps will be further outlined in the following pages_
 
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 ## 3. Determining Output 
-Determining the format of your output will enable you to assess and assemble the necessary resources. If you already have an idea of the output you want, take a moment to sketch it out or describe it with words. Otherwise, reflect on the following questions:
+Determining the format of your output will enable you to assess and assemble the necessary resources. If you already have an idea of the output you want, take a moment to sketch it out or describe it with words. Otherwise, the next section of this workshop will introduce you to a variety of options. The following questions are worth keeping in mind as you explore different output formats:
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-  - Who is your audience? Who is your spatial story for? To whom should it be legible?
+  > - Who is your audience? Who is your spatial story for? To whom should it be legible?
 
-  - How do you want your audience to interact/engage with your story? Will it be a stand-alone graphic or integrated somehow in a publication or website?
+  > - How do you want your audience to interact/engage with your story? Will it be a stand-alone graphic or integrated somehow in a publication or website?
 
-  - Thinking back to your objectives, is the purpose of your story to provide contextual spatial reference, convey a narrative, or visualize spatial data? 
+  > - Thinking back to your overarching project objectives, is the purpose of your story to provide contextual spatial reference, convey a narrative, or visualize the results of some analysis? 
   
-  - Do you want your output to be a static map, or something more dynamic and interactive hosted on the web? 
+  > - Do you want your output to be a static map, or something more dynamic and interactive hosted on the web? 
 
-  - It can be helpful in this stage to gather some examples that approximate your desired output. From where do you draw inspiration? 
+  > - It can be helpful in this stage to gather some examples that approximate your desired output. From where do you draw inspiration? 
 
 
 ## 4. Assembling Resources
-After you have a sense of your objectives, constraints, and intended output format, you can begin inventorying your data and assembling additional resources that suit your project's goals. Questions to ask yourself at this stage include:
+After you have a sense of your objectives, constraints, and intended output format, you can begin inventorying your data and assembling additional resources that suit your project's goals. Session 1 of this workshop will conclude by Assembling Resources. Don't worry if you don't have clear answers to the below questions at this point.
 
- - What data do you have? What data do you need?
+ > - What data do you have? What data do you need?
 
- - What aspect of your data is spatial? 
+ > - What aspect of your data is spatial? 
 
- - What format is your data in (eg csv, text, image, geospatial file, ...) Do you need to convert any of it into a different format? Is your data in current format legible to the software you intend to use?
+ > - What format is your data in (e.g. csv, text, image, geospatial file, historical map...)? Is your data in current format legible to the software you intend to use? Do you need to convert any of it into a different format?
 
-- How are you managing and storing your data? Will you and everyone who needs to have access to everything for the duration of this project? 
+ > - How are you managing and storing your data? Will you, and everyone who needs it, have access to the data and software for the duration of this project? 
 
-- What software, tools, platforms do you have access to?
+ > - What software, tools, platforms do you have access to or capacity to use? Gather the relevant tools/methods/platforms for your spatial story and begin mapping!
 
-- What tools/methods/platforms are relevant? This might be a question to circle back to after working through the next page. 
 
 
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