The idea of this (optional) "extra credit" homework assignment
is to provide a way to make up for an earlier homework issue
without creating an implied requirement of doing the assignment.
Doing all 5 posted homework assignments will not allow you to
exceed 100/100 on the homework points available.
In this assignment, you will explore information representation and visualization. There are many tools available across the spectrum, including Excel, PowerBI, and Tableau to name but a few. The content and context for this assignment is "Generation Mobile" with historic summary data from 2011 and class-generated data from last week! The posted Excel file also has the summary data from the 2011 exploration. Both data-collection samples have a bias. The 2011 sample comes from an unspecified collection of college students, obtained over Facebook. Our same comes from a room of CS majors taking an HCI class. The overarching goals of this assignment are: Your submission should aim to make use of interesting and appropriate data representation and visualization to provide easy access to the conclusions you've drawn about the 2011 and 2017 data. Your specific tasks are: This (optional) assignment is due by Wednesday, May 10th at the latest. An entry will be added to ELMS to allow you to upload a a PDF file with your visualizations with captions and your discussions. |