This document outlines a course on data design and creative research practices. The course covers topics like data mining, visualization, analysis techniques, and prototyping. It discusses methods for gathering meaningful data through surveys, crawling, and user experience design. Example analysis techniques covered include clustering, classification, regression, and association rules. Students are asked to consider what types of systems or products could be built by analyzing collective intelligence data related to topics like politics, entertainment, food, and more. For a homework assignment, students form groups to explore potential data sources and analysis techniques for a collective intelligence topic.