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This page has the rubrics (evaluation criteria) for Design Exercises 4-7.

In this design exercise, you will critique other students’ designs from DE06: One Data Set, Four Stories (Census Data Edition). This will give you practice at doing critique, and provide feedback to your peers (you will receive the feedback on your designs).

Canvas isn’t always great about how it handles multiple file uploads - especially around deadlines. So a few bits of caution for turning in assignments.

You should check that your submissions have been properly uploaded.

Here are some selected student responses that earned kudos. We picked one of each type somewhat randomly (these are not the “best” - they are a random example of something that earned a kudo, which is in itself a random sampling of things that are good).

We are providing these to give you a sense of what your classmates are doing that catches our eyes.

Design Exercise 6 asks that you make 4 visualizations, each telling a different story, from the Census Data data set. This assignment extends DE05: Stories from Data (EDA).

In this design exercise, we’ll continue working with the Census Data and make more visualizations. The idea is to try to “tell stories” with the data (illustrate interesting things). The problem is, we also need to identify the stories that are worth telling, which means we need to do some exploring. So part of this assignment is to try to do “Exploratory Data Analysis” where we make pictures that suggest what the interesting stories are.

Here is some advice on making good “figures.” It is targeted towards design exercises, but really, they are advice on how to make good figures generally.

These ideas apply more to places where we are asking you to “tell stories” from data. This starts with DE04. If you’re putting a figure in a paper or a slide, you are telling a story as well.

In this assignment, you will make some visualizations from the Census Data. Actual visualizations based on data (unlike last time when we asked you to sketch). You will turn your assignment in using the Canvas survey Design Exercise 04: Pictures from Data (due Fri, Sep 27)

Invitations to our Tableau Cloud instance were sent out after class today.

You should receive an email with subject “You’ve Been Invited to Tableau Cloud” from the server (reghelp@onlinemail.tableau.com). Please accept the invitation and set up your account now. Even though we may not use Tableau until next week.

This is a tutorial on how to get started with Tableau using the Census Data for the Design Exercises. It will walk you through what I did to make a few initial pictures. This will show you some of the quirks of Tableau, and the dataset.

This is an update - especially for those who joined class late (we admitted a lot of students on or after the first day, but we should be done for now). We want everyone to get caught up on the first few assignments as soon as possible. Hopefully, we can get through the mechanics and administrative stuff and focused on learning Visualization!

In our first design exercise (it is DE02 because it is in the second week), we will look at our data set and begin to think about why to visualize it. We’ll also practice critique.