This third seek and find is similar to the second – the question is just a little bit more focused.
Due: Friday, February 3rd. The assignment will remain open for discussion late submissions until Friday February 10th.
Turning it in: There will be a discussion on Canvas . Having 64 people all posting to the same discussion gets a little unweildy – we’ll try a different solution next week.
Assessment: We will give you a score on the 70 point scale (see grading). A good assignment will include a valid picture and link, and a brief answer to the question.
What you need to do.
If you need the general seek and find directions, see Seek and Find 1.
Like last time, you can pick just about any visualization you like – providing you can figure out what the visualization is supposed to help someone do. But this time, rather than trying to figure out what the designer was trying to do, your job is to think about what the viewer is supposed to do with the visualization. In your posting, describe the tasks that you think the visualization should support (what will the viewer want to do with the visualization – i.e., what are the tasks). At this point, we don’t necessarily need to assess whether the visualization is doing a good job at helping people with the task, but let’s focus on identifying the tasks. (you can comment on effectiveness as well, but the real point here is to think about task).
You may be aware that we haven’t discussed tasks in class yet – we’ll get to it in a week or two! This is intentional. I want you to try to think about tasks before learning about how to think about tasks so that you can appreciate why we need to build up a vocabulary.
Include a picture of the visualization, a link to it in context (if there is one), and a brief description of the tasks you think the viewer would want to do with the visualization.