This page explains the feedback for Design Exercise 2: Life Expectancy (stories). Your feedback is a comment on your Canvas submission. For each item it gives the assessment, any codes, and comments, then an overall comment, the score, and the grade. This is an initial version, prepared to grade the AI prompts.

This week, we’ll wrap up Module 2: Methodology: Making and Using Visualizations. No reading this week so you can focus on Design Exercise 2: Stories from Life Expectancy which is due on Friday. One of the days in class, we’ll critique some sample solutions (both from past students as well as AI agents) to help you connect between the concepts we’re discussing and the actual practice of the assignments (as well as helping to build your sense of how we evaluate assignments). The other class day we’ll continue our discussion of design strategies: scalability, comparison, and exploration. There is an anonymous survey at the end of the week as well.

This page explains the feedback for Design Warmup 1. Your feedback is a comment on your Canvas submission. For each item it gives the assessment, any codes, and comments, then an overall comment, the score, and the grade.

This week, we continue Module 2: Methodology: Making and Using Visualizations - we’ll talk more about implemetation, as well as some key design considerations (scalability and comparison). Importantly, this week, you’ll start to make “real” visualizations with data. Reading 2-2 will ask you to try to use some grammar-based approach, and Design Warmup 2: Make Some Visualizations will ask you to make some visualizations using tools of your choice.

This week, we’ll start a new module: Module 2: Methodology: Making and Using Visualizations. Class time will be used for activities that wrap up Module 1, but we expect students to start with Reading 2-1 so you can do Reading Survey 2: Implementation and Methodology (due Fri, Oct 09) and Seek and Find 2: Too much stuff (due Fri, Oct 09).

Tableau is a commercial data analysis/visualization system. It is very popular and common (it is what most of the Unviersity data platforms use).

We will provide you with access to Tableau for class, and recommend it as an option for learning about grammar-based visualization description.

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.

This week we’ll conclude our module on Building blocks by looking at more examples and using critique to understand how the encodings work together to serve tasks. We’ll use Wednesday’s lecture to look ahead at the next module and discuss implementation. At the end of the week, Design Exercise 1: Sketching Solutions to Real Data Problems is due - asking you to sketch designs. And Anonymous Survey 1: Attitudes and Preferences will give you an opportunity for you to provide us feedback on how the class is working.

This week we’ll continue learning about the building blocks of visualization and start applying them to design. We’ll make use of what you’ve read about in the first week: we’ll practice critique to learn from visualizations, and we’ll start putting encodings, layouts and transformations together to make visualizations. This week, we’ll also have our first design warmup which will give you a chance to redesign some visualizations.