Due: Sunday, 2/16, 11.59pm
For this assignment, you will set up your own course website while investigating the effects of one substance in depth, drawing both on the reports of individual users and aggregated information.
Use this tutorial to set up your own website for the class. This will be the lab activity on 2/12.
Erowid is a fantastic starting point to explore the effects, both good and bad, that individual substance have. For this assigment, you should dive into the user reports for one of the following drugs:
You can find the experience reports by scrolling down to the "Experiences" section.
Once you have a sense of how people experience the effects of this particular drug, investigate the same substance on Visualizing Erowid. What new information do you learn by looking not at one but hundreds of reports in an aggregated form? But also, what do you lose?
Once you are done with your investigation, write a 500-600 word blog post, which summarizes:
The goal of this assignment is not just to make you familiar with a substance but also to make you comfortable with web development. Here are the technical requirements for this assignment: