Assignment: FORENSIC DESIGN ASSESSMENTS
Select any example of a visualization or infographic, maybe your own work or that of others. The task is to undertake a deep, detailed ‘forensic' like an assessment of the design choices made across each of the five layers of the chosen visualization's anatomy. In each case, your assessment is only concerned with one design layer at a time.
For this task, take a close look at the data representation choices:
i. Start by identifying all the charts and their types
ii. How suitable do you think the chart type choice(s) are to display the data? If they are not, what do you think they should have been?
iii. Are the marks and, especially, the attributes appropriately assigned and accurately portrayed?
iv. Go through the set of ‘Influencing factors' from the latter section of the book's chapter to help shape your assessment and to possibly inform how you might tackle this design layer differently.
v. Are there any data values/statistics presented in table/raw form that maybe could have benefited from a more visual representation?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.