Scope It Down

Scope It Down
Scope It Down One vague complaint → one specific, sourced ask to a named person Data Activism · The Multiverse School VAGUE SPECIFIC STEP 0 · THE RAW FEELING “The air around here is bad.” 1 WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Name a real harm to real people — plain language. THE ASK, NOW: “Kids at Lincoln Elementary keep getting asthma attacks.” 2 WHO & WHERE? Pin it to a place. Not ‘everyone’ — a map dot. THE ASK, NOW: “…at Lincoln Elementary, 400m from the Ironton plant.” 3 WHAT DOES THE DATA SAY? One metric · one source · one time range. THE ASK, NOW: “PM2.5 there runs 3× the EPA limit, 47 days/yr (EPA AQS, 2023).” 4 WHAT’S YOUR ASK? ‘[body] does [action] by [date]’ — concrete + bounded. THE ASK, NOW: “The Air District must require quarterly emissions reporting from the plant.” 5 WHO DECIDES? Name the one person who can say yes. THE ASK, NOW: “Air District Board — Chair Ruiz — votes at the Nov 14 hearing.” SCOPED — NOW IT’S A CAMPAIGN Ask Chair Ruiz & the Air District Board to require quarterly emissions reporting from the Ironton plant, by the Nov 14 vote — because PM2.5 is 3× the limit 47 days a year (EPA AQS). THE LITMUS TEST If you can’t name the person who could say yes, it’s not scoped yet.

Tour mode

Space / → next · ← previous
Home / End first / last
1…9 jump to frame

Explore mode

Click any highlighted region to zoom in.
Click further-in regions to drill deeper.
Backspace / Esc — zoom back out
O — return to overview

Anywhere

M — toggle mode
T — toggle frame list
F — fullscreen · R — restart
0 / 0 Tour