Design Exercise 4-1: OPT-IN exercise
The regular Design Exercise is folded into Design Exercise 4-2: 2 Data Sets, 6 Visualizations. This part (4-1 Drafts) is optional. We will not grade this part - but completing it might help you do better on the part that does count.
How this works: If you turn in drafts of your designs by the deadline (which is not the end of the module) with the survey Design Exercise 4-1: OPT-IN: DE4 Drafts (due Fri, Oct 17), we will connect you with other students to do peer critique - hopefully you will be able to help one another do better visualizations and get some experience with critique.
The Basic Idea…
This is an optional Collaborative Learning Opportunity (CLO). You will not be graded on this assignment.
The real design exercise is Design Exercise 4-2: 2 Data Sets, 6 Visualizations. It asks you to make some visualizations (6) and to do some critiques.
This (optional) assignment asks you to turn in a draft of your visualization (and its rationale) early. If you do this, we will let you “trade” visualizations with other students so that you can critique each others’ assignments. You will need to do this earlier than the end of the module so that there is time to update the visualizations before the due date.
By submitting a draft you are promising to also do a critique early.
This CLO should not be any extra (required) work: you are simply doing some of the parts of Design Exercise 4-2: 2 Data Sets, 6 Visualizations early. And in a way that will connect you with another student (so your critique actually is important).
If you do not opt-in to the CLO, you will probably still make a draft of your visualization (we will not collect it), and you will still be required to do the same number of critiques (you just won’t be providing feedback to the author).
If you opt-in, you may turn in 1 or 2 visualizations. You be asked the same questions as you will be asked for the final handin.
The timing if you opt-in:
- Your visualization draft(s) will be handed in at Design Exercise 4-1: OPT-IN: DE4 Drafts (due Fri, Oct 17). This is a hard deadline (if you miss it, you are not opting in)
- Your critiques will be due on Tuesday, October 21 (we will send instructions on October 18). (I am not sure how we’ll enforce this deadline, but not getting it done on time would be hurting a classmate who wants the critique to improve their work).
- You will turn in your final visualizations (that hopefully benefit from the feedback) for Design Exercise 4-2: 2 Data Sets, 6 Visualizations which is handed in at the Canvas survey Design Exercise 4-2: Visualizations from 2 data sets (due Fri, Oct 24). (this is a usual end-of-module deadline, and has the usual late policy)
The timing if you do not opt in:
- You will turn in your visualizations and critiques for the regular deadline of Design Exercise 4-2: 2 Data Sets, 6 Visualizations
We will use a Canvas discussion for trading the critiques. We will put groups of 3-4 students together so if you opt-in, you will see other designs and critiques.
If you opt-in, you will be placed in a small online group (of around 4 people). While you are only required to do one critique, you will see 3 other students’ work (including the critique). And you will have the opportunity to “discuss” the assignment (beyond just the single design and critique) with others.