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DE10: My Questions and Your Questions

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Unlike last week, when all the visualizations were exploratory, here they are meant to be “final” - they should stand alone (with good labels and captions). You are asked to turn in a “rationale” (why you think it is effective, what you think it shows), but the visualization should “work” without it.

You will turn this assignment in using the Canvas survey Design Exercise 10: My Questions - Your Questions (due Fri, Nov 08). While the assignment is due on Friday, November 8th, we will accept assignments until Monday, November 11th without penalty.

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DE09: Initial Experiments

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This is the first assignment in a series of design exercises where you will work with the ATUS Data for 765-24.

The goals for this assignment are for you to (1) get some experience with the data set, (2) to practice making visualizations from it, (3) to do some exploratory visualization from it, and to (4) think about some of the issues particular to this data set.

If you haven’t already done so, I recommend reading the ATUS Data for 765-24 page to get started. I also recommend that you look through A Quick EDA Example with the ATUS Data (from 2022) - this is an example of me playing with the data sets from 2 years ago (which were different).

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Opt In: Collaborative Learning Opportunity for Design Exercises 9-12

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For the Design Exercises 9-12, we are giving students the opportunity to be part of a collaborative learning opportunity. Students must opt-in: by agreeing to be part of option, students will be held responsible for strict deadlines twice a week. In return, they will receive the ability to work in a group to discuss their assignments (asynchronously).

Note: even if you want to opt out (i.e., not opt-in) you must complete CLO Survey: Opt in or out to the Collaborative Learning Opportunity - it does count as a class survey. You must register your choice by 2pm (an hour after class) on Monday, October 28th.

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Design Challenge 2 - Overview

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Design Challenge 2 (or maybe, better described as “Data Challenge 2”) will be a grouping of assignments (Design Exercises) we will do over the next few weeks. The idea is we will use a single data set (the American Time Usage Survey - see ATUS Data for 765-24) for a number of exercises involving exploring data, identifying questions, designing visualizations, and critiquing visualizations.

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DE5-6 Codes: Feedback

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To expedite feedback, some common things are given as codes. We use codes to tell you about good and back things we see in your visualization (it is feedback). For an explanation of how we grade, see Design Exercise Rubrics 04,05,06,07. If we point out problems with a code (as feedback) it is to help you learn and improve - it doesn’t always mean that it hurts your great.

You should look through the codes to get a sense of common problems (so you can avoid them) or common positives (so you can try to achieve them).

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Canvas Caveats

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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.

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Examples 1: Student Responses that Earned Kudos

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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.

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DE05: Stories from Data (EDA)

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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.

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Hints for Good Figures (how to do well on Design Exercises)

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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.

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DE03: Design Exercise 3: Pictures and Questions

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Design Exercise 3 will ask you to consider what visualizations to make to answer questions. We will continue to work with the Census Data.

This assignment will ask you to think more about the Census Data data set. The goal is to think about how questions and visualizations connect, and to start coming up with visualizations that answer questions.

Mechanics

This exercise will be turned in as a Canvas Survey: Design Exercise 03: Pictures and Questions. Most questions ask you to upload a file (a separate file for each question). You should be able to upload just about any image.

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Tableau Invite

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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.

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