Data Visualization Software | Creating Visualizations
Fact Checking a
President using data.
§ The
US president claims that COVID-19 cases and deaths in his country are not as
bad as other locations, especially Europe. Donald Trump has continually made
statements which do not appear to be supported by the data. For example:
“It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will
disappear,…”
The U.S. has “among the lowest case-fatality rates of any major country
anywhere in the world.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/trumps-lies-about-coronavirus/608647/
“We’re last, meaning we’re first, we have the best,”
https://time.com/5875411/trump-covid-19-death-rate-interview/
§ We
want you to fact check his claims by
making visuals based on data from two different dates (see assessment description)
§ You
will create persuasive visualisations ranking the US COVID infections, death
rates relative to the rest of the world
Software
Required
·
Tableau
Public/trial version or Power BI
·
PowerPoint
Assessment Description
·
An individual report demonstrating: Visualisations, their effectiveness and interpretation
·
Learning outcomes: LO1, LO2
Face-to-Face
students
·
You
need to bring a laptop to class to complete this task individually
·
You have 2 hours to perform this task
(see instructions below)
·
You can take any materials into the
class and the task is open book.
·
At the end of two hours upload your
PowerPoint slides to Turnitin (as a PDF file)
Online
students
·
You have 2 hours to perform this task
(see instructions below) during your
online workshop class
·
You use any materials and the task is
open book
·
At the end of two hours upload your
PowerPoint slides to Turnitin (as a PDF file)
·
You must do the tasks in the online
workshop with your camera on
Assessment Instructions (This
is for both online and Face-to-Face students)
·
Access two datasets:
§ You
will be given two excel files at the beginning of the assessment
o
For August 2020
o
For December 2020
·
Create Six
visualisations which make use of:
o
different variables
o
different graph type, e.g.
table/chart/map/tree map/dial/doughnut, etc.
o
Two of
the visualisations should compare results from the two datasets
·
Cut and paste the graphs into separate
slides of PowerPoint (6 slides)
·
For each visualisation provide an
interpretation, including an explanation of the
summary statistics/analytics that you have used. Explain how the visualisations
either contradict or support Donald Trump’s claims above. (2 slides)
·
Explain the theory of user experience
design and how you have applied it. (2 slides)
·
Explain how you have made your
visualisations effective in terms of:
i.
pre-attentive attributes
ii.
Gestalt
laws
iii.
integrity
iv.
ease of use, and
v. cognitive load
Lecture slides 1 to 3
39355945_1DATA4100 Workshop 01 T3 2020.pdf
39355977_2DATA4100 Workshop 02 T3 2020.pdf
39355920_3DATA4100 Workshop 03 T3 2020.pdf
Lecture 4 slide
39355966_1DATA4100 Workshop 04 T3 2020.pdf
USA 
India
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