Design-Exercises

This design exercise has you create visualizations from the new census data set. You will turn it in on Canvas as Design Exercise 3: Census (aggregations) (due Fri, Nov 13).

The goal of this Design Warmup is to get you working with the (new) census data set that you will use in Design Exercise 3, and to practice two things from this module: choosing appropriate aggregations, and choosing appropriate color scales. You will turn this assignment in on Canvas: Design Warmup 3: Working with Census Data (due Sat, Nov 07). Prepare your answers offline, ahead of time.

This design exercise has you create some visualizations from the Life Expectancy data set. You will turn it in on Canvas as Design Exercise 2: Life Expectancy (stories) (due Fri, Oct 23).

The goal of this Design Warmup is to give you practice using tools to make visualizations with data, and specifically to work with the data set you will use next week (the life expectancy data). You will turn this assignment in on Canvas: Design Warmup 2: Make my visualizations (due Fri, Oct 16). Prepare your answers offline, ahead of time.

In modules 1, 2, and 3, we will work with two different data sets. This page will give you some information about them. We will use a dataset of life expectancies and a data set of census information.

For Design Exercise 1, you will sketch ideas for designs for visualization problems using two sample data sets. Later in the semester, you will use tools (or programs) to make real visualizations. For this assignment we want you to sketch. The goal is for you to think of how visualization designs can answer questions, and to practice sketching to explore designs.

For this Design Warmup, you will critique and redesign (by sketching) some visualizations from an online article. Read the whole assignment first. The goal is to give you practice at critiquing.

Important: for this design exercise you should sketch. This means drawing things by hand. You should not write programs to make visualizations. If you want to draw using a tablet or drawing program, that’s OK - but the spirit of the assignment is for you to sketch on paper (and submit a picture of what you’ve drawn).