Assignment 4: How do we know it’s any good?

by Mike Gleicher on February 2, 2017

Reading: Reading 4 is due Monday, February 6th before class. There is also the Design School reading that you’ll want to look at before doing this week’s seek and find.

Seek and Find: Seek and Find 4, due on Friday, February 10, is part of the Design School in a Day. It’s a little different than most seek and finds.

Discussion: The discussion assignment (initial posting due Monday, February 6th) is to discuss the various perspectives on evaluation we’ve seen / read about (link).

For your initial posting: describe how Tufte and North’s views fit into Munzner’s framework. How does the Chartjunk debate and the kinds of things the Borkin papers fit in? Then give your thoughts on evaluation in general. Comment on where you stand in the chartjunk debate (which often leads to interesting discussion). Please at least reply to two other posts.

Other things… The design school assignments are due the following week (redesign on Tuesday 2/14, contrast on Friday 2/17)

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