Seek and Find 2: Why Vis This?

by Mike Gleicher on January 20, 2017

This second seek and find assignment has a little more to it than the first. Because we’re setting the assignment out late, the due date is later.

Due: Friday, January 27th. The assignment will remain open for late submissions until Friday February 3rd.

Turning it in: There will be a discussion on Canvas

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 directions and rules for a seek and find, see Seek and Find 1.

For this seek and find, you need to find a visualization for which you can say why this visualization was made. What is the task that required a visualization? Why couldn’t this have been just done with a few numbers or a little text? Why did the designer bother to make a visual representation?

Include a picture of the visualization, a link to it in context (if there is one), a brief description of what the visualization is, and an explanation of why it needed to be a visualization (those 3 questions in the previous paragraph are a good start).

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