Present & Critique

James Normington

Announcements

Announcements

Assignments

• One Number Story due tomorrow night @ 11:59pm

Iterative Viz

• IV2: due Friday, April 28th @ 11:59pm

Effective Visuals

Let’s review from the first half of the semester:

• Be ethical and honest
• Consider glyph choice
  • easy or hard to perceive?
• Consider color choices
  • color blind friendly? cultural associations?
• Facilitate comparison
  • e.g. position through order on axis or faceting, calculate and present the difference or ratio
• Use contrasts to draw attention
  • e.g. yellow, red, orange draw attention in nature of green, brown, blue

Presenting a Visual

When preparing to present a visualization, consider:

• What context does the audience need to understand the visual? (W’s?)
• Does the visual have enough text annotation and guides to be understood with minimal explanation?
• What aspects of the visual should you explain to provide necessary orientation?
  • Walk through guides (axes, color legend, etc.)
• What aspects of the visual do you want to draw attention to?
  • What comparison are you wanting to highlight?

Today

In groups of 3-4 people,

• you’ll present your visualization (2 minutes)
• discuss as a group ways of improving the visualization to make it more effective (8 minutes)
  • comment on the good features of the graphic first
  • offer concrete suggestions about the visualization
  • offer ideas and questions that you have about the visual and data

Once your group is done, use this time to update your graphic based on that feedback.

Groups

• Windows, west: Nathan, Yvan, Ruben

• Windows, middle: Max, Felix, Evan K

• Windows, east: Regan, Bridget, Liz, Matte

• Board, west: Hadley, Juan, Paige

• Board, middle: Jane, Jude, Shirley, Stephen

• Board, east: Evan B, Gregory, Tianqi

After Class

• Incorporate that feedback and update your visual!