Creating Visualisations Assessment

Creating Visualisations Assessment

 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,…” https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-miracle-stock-markets/index.html

The U.S. has “among the lowest case-fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world.”

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

complete case study is attached below