And your initial ideas and early stage designs hand-drawn sketches

Date due: Friday 21 May 2021
Returned by: Friday 18 June 2021
Submission: Presentation and Blackboard

Learning outcomes

Overview

The aim of this project is to apply your knowledge of information visualisation to create an effective and compelling visualisation of a data set of your choice. You will need to select a data set that people will find interesting and intriguing, or – better - a data set with a clearly identified set of people who care deeply about that data. The choice of good data sets is important to your project.

Allow plenty of time to focus on data acquisition, cleaning and merging. If you do not have your data nailed down by the prototype display session then you will be in deep trouble.

Most of the really successful projects are in one of two styles, the single innovative visual representation or the multi-view, effective existing technique coordinated system.

The milestones in this project are:
1.Research, choose and get approval for a suitable data set,
2.Work up your design ideas and present them to the class in a lab session, to get feedback on your design (30 April),
3.Give a presentation and demonstration of your project, with an accompanying flyer (21 May),
4.Submit a copy of the final system on Blackboard.

Relationship to formative assessment

2.The visualisation will be marked in the presentation1. This will be done as a live remote event, with an audience of the two people who are marking it.

3.We will look at the Blackboard submission only if we have questions or points we need to resolve when we are agreeing the marks.

Where do you get your data from? You should expect to have to get data from multiple sources: published or scraped from the web, manually generated, coalesced from several different sources.

Ideally, you should start with a problem or domain, find data from a variety of source and look at what other people have done to visualise similar data. You will need to put in some work – it needs a problem-driven approach.

1 If your internet connection will not support doing a live presentation you can arrange to submit a pre-recorded presentation and then attend a live Q+A session to answer questions on it.

CMP-7022B Project Marking Sheet