Week 02

Agenda

DUE

• Post the 3 links that you found from researching 5wgraphics.com website to the blog comments on the page (see last weeks posting Homework)
• Reading (see last weeks posting Homework)

Lecture

• Discussion of reading: W.E.B. Du Boise  and Florence Nightingale
• Types of Graphs and Charts
• Graphs & Charts (blog post about what chart or graph to choose)
• Illustrator Lesson: Basic Charts and Graphs
• Understanding data and displaying visually measured quantities
• Basic Excel: Sort and Filter
• Fill out In-Class Survey

Lab

• Collecting Data from class
• Enter spreadsheet – Class Spreadsheet
• Intro to Illustrator continued

Homework

Readings

• Review: Graphs & Charts (blog post about what chart or graph to choose)
• Read: Friendly, Michael. “Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization,” (Introduction, pp 1-3 ) Oct. 16, 2018. (Math.USA.Edu)
• Read: Grimwade, John. “Twelve Centuries of Infographics” Ohio University, August 28, 2019. (VisCom at Ohio University)
• Read: Fresques, Hannah. “Visualizing Data” Data Institute 2018 ProPublica, October 1, 2018. (ProPublica)

• Watch: Creating Graphs in Illustrator | Adobe  (YouTube)
• Watch: Adobe Illustrator: Creating Graphs in Adobe Illustrator using Excel Data | Ben Halsall (YouTube)

Assignment

• Finish entering class data into Excel file
• Create 2 charts in illustrator based on class lecture and collected data