Description This project asks you to engage with data, present data for a specific audience, and practice making effective data visualizations. Audience and purpose are central to the goal of the final deliverable, as you should realize that numbers dont speak for themselves, that writing with data requires critical and rhetorical thought, as well as visual design skills. In completing the project, you will work with instructor to engage with different types of visuals, as well as the conventions of writing with data and numbers. You will select a data set of their own to work with, choose a point to make using their data that will matter to their target audience, make decisions about which data to visualize from the larger data set, and craft that data into a final deliverable of one page that includes three visuals and the text necessary to explain their data and make their point. Students also will compose a reflective memo that explains their choices and goals, and how the final deliverable achieves them. Data visualizations bring a number of benefits to any professional document, even short ones: ? Though they have become extremely easy to make, people in the workplace still tend to be impressed by the extra effort and thoughtful presentation implicit in making a visualization. ? Data visualizations also help to make the work of digesting and interpreting data more efficient by displaying trends or illustrating the significance of specific information without poring over page after page of numbers. ? Because of this efficiency, visual elements are also better at communicating certain ideas more quickly than words or tabular data . Something that may take many sentences to communicate, a sudden drop in the efficiency of a process, or a surge in sales among a certain demographic, are instantly recognizable as spikes or dips along the X axis of a line graph
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