Plan Your Visualizations Project

Week 2 – Journal

Plan Your Visualizations

[WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 4, 5]

Prior to completing this journal, refer back to the Tableau videos and modules you completed in your Learning Activity this week. Additionally,

Watch

Visualize 75 and 37

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Read

Chapter 34: The Allure of Pies and Donuts from the course text, The Big Book of Dashboards

Chapter 35: Clouds and Bubbles from the course text, The Big Book of Dashboards

Glossary (pp. 419–422) from the course text, The Big Book of Dashboards

The Shaffer 4 C’s of Data Visualization

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Review

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

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Data sets in their raw state may require additional calculations to  tell the story. Reflect on the calculations you used when preparing your  data for your final project.

In this week’s journal,

Prepare the data set(s) you selected in your What Story Do You Want to Tell Discussion quiz this week.

What considerations are needed for your data set? Why?

What challenges did you experience when completing your preparing your data?

What successes did you experience?

How is the data set(s) impacting the message or story you want to communicate?

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Download The Shaffer 4 C’s of Data Visualization

Download The Shaffer 4 Cs of Data Visualization: “Clean” Examples

Using Treemaps to Visualize Data

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A Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love to Use: Translating Delicious Data Into a Beautiful Design

Part 3 (pp. 23–37)

Save the Pies for Dessert