wk3-4-followup-work

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Introduction

In this assignment you will locate, critique, and share two data visualizations.

  • You choose the topic(s) of interest to you.
  • The visualizations can be unrelated to each other.
  • One should be “good” and the other should be in some way(s) “less good”.
  • You can search1 news sources, academic journals (access on campus or through google/google scholar), or government or non-governmental organizational sites.

You should,

  • Give a few sentences of context for the visualization, including a link to the original source. Consider saving the source at http://archive.org.
  • Describe what you think each visualization is designed to illustrate and comment on how well you think each achieves its goal.
  • Identify any changes to the format or style that you might make with access to the original data.
  • Include the visualizations and description in a single pdf document. You can make the pdf in Quarto2, Google Docs/MS Word (export pdf), or .
  • Upload the pdf to D2L with the name lastname-firstname-critique.pdf.

Other important guidelines.

  • Please no ChatGPT/Generative AI.
  • Please avoid overused examples from “Bad Dataviz” blogs.

Footnotes

  1. Search tips, combine an interest with phrases like graph, chart.↩︎

  2. To include images in Quarto, use ![Caption.](filename.<ext>), png, jpg are recommended extensions.↩︎