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Portfolio Guidelines – IM949 Advanced Visualisation Design Labs

20 CATs:

•    A portfolio composed of any two of the three visualisation projects/challenges. Students can choose which projects to include.

•    1,000 word report.

• 70% of final mark.

30 CATs:

•    A portfolio of all three visualisation projects/challenges.

•    1,500 words.

• 80% of final mark

Final submission:

•    Submit a single pdf file including the images of your final outcomes and your 1000/1500 word report.

•    The pdf should begin with images of your final outcomes. The text comes after.

•    Include images in your report to illustrate, describe and analyse your design process and the outcomes, and critical reflections on that work.

•    Compressed files are not allowed for these ‘text’ documents.

•    If your final outcomes do not fit within the report due to size or other formatting conflicts,

then a compressed folder containing the original imagefiles should be submitted separately.

•    This does not alter the above requirement to include images within the written report (e.g. using a reduced size, screenshots, cropped images etc...).

Description:

Your portfolio will demonstrate your ability to research, design and develop projects from an initial brief.  The final outcomes (i.e. images) will represent substantial pieces of work in terms of, for instance, the level of consideration, refinement and innovation in their production. Remember, a substantial amount of work could lead to a simple final outcome.

Your report will explain:

•    your understanding of the project,

•    how the final outcomes developed,

•    key decision points,

•    methodological choices,

•    and any other information relevant to the shaping and development of the project including reflections and critique of the final outcomes.

The report should not be entirely descriptive. Instead, it should demonstrate your comprehension, analysis and critique of the different aspects of the challenge, of the design process, and of course  your presentation. The report may highlight how the projects requirements have been met.

It is important to remember that your final outcomes, i.e., your visualisations, should standalone and speak for themselves without the report. If the project/challenge brief specifies a particular context /audience/function/purpose, then the final outcome should operate within that scenario  without the support of the report. For example, if a visualisation is for schoolchildren they should not need a report, at postgraduate level, in order to use it.

This final assessment is your opportunity to demonstrate that you:

•    have the understanding and skills required to create effective visualisations.

•    can evaluate visualisations and prototypes in terms of users/audiences and tasks/affordances.

•    appreciate/understand prototypes and design processes in developing visualisations.

•    can incorporate/integrate theoretical, methodological, ethical and practice-based considerations into your visualisation work.

Notes:

You are encouraged to include substantial visual material to document and explain your visual research, design process and prototypes and sketches. You might include, for example, photos from group work, scans of your sketchbook, a ‘mood board’ collection of visual inspiration, visual dissections of previous work or prototypes, process diagrams, images of sketches and prototypes etc. There is no limit to how many visuals you can include. However, they should be used with purpose.

Ensure that descriptive captions are included for any images and visuals. Captions do not count towards the word count. Captions should be numbered (e.g. Figure 1), appear below the image, include references as appropriate, and be explanatory. Make use of annotations, callouts, notes to make your visuals more informative, useful and better integrated into the narrative of your report, feel free to experiment with innovative ways of linking the visuals and the text (e.g., think comics and storyboards). Images may also be included in appendices if they are for documentation rather  than contributing to the overall presentation.

Your report will be appropriately referenced. We encourage you to draw from theory, empirical work, previous visualisation work and other material to guide, inform and inspire your own work.

Outline briefs

Project 1 - Colour Key/Legend, US Election Data

You will focus away from the election map, and towards visually informative keys/legends for maps.

Your challenge is to produce a visualisation as a ‘swatch’ of options exploring:

• colours

•    interval/breaks/binning techniques

• text and annotations

•    different graph types

Your visualisation will explain and explore how colour encodes data to the map.

You choose:

•    your role (e.g. Designer, Lecturer, Teacher, News reporter, Researcher… )

•    your audience (e.g. Politician, Comms team, Scientists, Citizens, Design team, Clients, Readership)

•    the destination (e.g. Textbook, Presentation, Tweet, Report, News article, academic paper…)

The challenge/project uses US election data as a case study, but itscore focus is methodological (in relation to colour, colour cutters, etc….).

You will use… Visualisations, Layout, Graphical annotations, Text annotations etc…

Project 2 - Visualising Childcare Costs (with Si Chun Lam & WMCA)

“ WMCA would like to understand how Childcare costs (particularly as a proportion of income) vary -- both geographically and also in relation to the social, economic and demographic indicators.   We would like to explore this not only at the level of the seven constituent local authorities of the WMCA, but at more granular levels such as the LSOA geography level.”

“ The key message is that childcare costs are disproportionately borne by our most deprived

households, and has a gendered dimension to this. Infographics and visualisations should make visible the challenges here.”

The target audiences could be one of:

• central government and local authority stakeholders - knowledgeable but non-technical people with varying ability to read and understand data;

o local/regional policymakers

o local politicians

o national policymakers

o national politicians

• partner and anchor organisations - other organisations across the public, private, voluntary sectors that play a role in shaping our local and regional economy

• members of the public - generally non-technical non-scientific members of the public

‘Challenge-2_WMCA_Brief -https://moodle.warwick.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2333534

‘Si Chun Lam (WMCA)’s slides’ -https://moodle.warwick.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2336216 Data Guide -https://moodle.warwick.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=2337413

Project 3 – ‘The personal is political’ – My data journal

For this project, you need to pick a theme/issue and explore it through both the data you collected in your personal data journal and a dataset from an external source.

The requirements are:

•    Your final submission, must cover 1 A4 page (landscape or portrait).

• It must contain at least two datasets (but it can be many more!):

•    1 ‘data journal’ dataset collected by you using your smartphone (if you want to use another device/medium ask us first!)

•    1 external dataset about the theme/issue of your choice

• Each dataset must have at least 1 data visualisation

The data you are collecting for your data journal is not meant to be scientific or comprehensive!

Therefore, the link between the two datasets does not need to be literal. We are looking for you to show how something you personally encounter in your everyday life –  as recorded by your data

journal – is linked to larger societal, political or ecological etc issues. The challenge for you is to use layout, narrative and visual storytelling to link the two datasets together. The overall visualisation should be informative and convey to your chosen audience why your theme/issue is important.

This project is the most open for you to develop however you want. Think about how you can use  this project as an opportunity to tryout novel data visualisation techniques and develop your own design manifesto!

Remember, the point of this exercise is not to create a data visualisation about you. It is about

thinking about data and what it means by creating your own data, locating yourself and your life in

relation to bigger issues, and using your own personal experiences and positions as part of developing an effective narrative.  Think about who your audience is and how you are communicating with them.

When collecting your data DO NOT record identifying or personal information about others. If you     have any questions or concerns about if your data might contain such infomation or your are unsure about this ethics SPEAK TO US FIRST.