Category: Week3

Class Info

• Date: Monday 9/18
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

Graphs and Charts Continued
Quantitative vs Qualitative information
Displaying visually measured quantities
Information vs Data

• Project 1 Defining Topic
  • >>Project 1 Overview
  • >>Assignment 2 Presentations
  • >>Assignment 1 – Project 1 – Topic Proposal

Activities and Lab Time

• Lecture >> Week 3 Lecture : Information Design A Brief History
• Finish information design in-class exercise
  • >>Assignment 0 – Design Exercise Colors: pens and pencils needed!
• Review  Data Collection: NYC Environment and Health Data Portal: https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/QuickView.aspx
• >>Environmental and Health Data Portal
• >>The Data Visualisation Catalogue Take a peak at the Data Visualisation Catalogue, a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a (non-code-based) library of different information visualisation types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualisation.
• Introduction to Illustrator and its graph tools based on a simple class survey: >> Week3-Files in DropBox

Homework

1.  >>Assignment 0 – Design Exercise
   
   • Great job sketching your data visualizations and presenting to class! Such interesting, unique, creative and thoughtful solutions. 
   • Please snap a photo of your sketch and email it to me OR save it into the class dropbox folder with your name on it >>Assignment00-VisualizationExercise. I would like to post them on the OL so anyone that may have missed class yesterday can see them.
   • Finalize your information design exercise: hand render the final on the two postcards that were given out in class. Use one card for the visualization and the other card for the legend. DUE: 10/2 bring with you to our next class.
2. Review Project 1 Overview above and:
   • Browse research tips posted here: >>Lesson/Research
   • Get inspired by combing through some of the links posted here: >>Lesson/Inspiration
   • Begin to research your topic and collect sources. Create a folder for saving related references and assets. Also create a word document and keep careful track of all your sources and citations -> URLs! 
   • Here you can see examples of Project 1 from previous COMD students >>Project1-PastExamples
3. Read:
   • Forrest, Jason. “W. E. B. Du Bois’ staggering Data Visualizations are as powerful today as they were in 1900 (Part 2&3)” Medium, Jul 18, 2018. (Medium)
   • >>Andrews, Raymond J. “Florence Nightingale is a Design Hero” Medium, July 7, 2019 . (Medium)