What you need to know for Week 5

1. Read

• Davenport – 2013 – Telling a story with data
• Ritchie – What Is an Infographic?

2. Take quiz

3. Do assignment 1 due to me 3 pm Sept. 29. Also note that the data set is different than the in-class exercise we did. Assignment 1: Tableau  (Covid cases spreadsheet)  

4. Check out some tools and how-tos on visualization. There are several ‘how to’ articles on how to tell a story with data, just google ‘telling stories with data’:

https://www.google.com/search?q=telling+stories+with+data

They all tell pretty much the same story, so you can choose the one that works for you. 

Differences between infographics and data visualizations are discussed in these two posts:

https://www.statsilk.com/blog/real-difference-between-infographics-and-data-visualizations

https://killervisualstrategies.com/blog/difference-between-infographics-data-visualization.html

We use Piktochart to create an infographic on MIS0855, but there a numerous other web-based tools available:

https://www.creativebloq.com/infographic/tools-2131971

5. Remember that week 6 is exam week and we’ll meet on Canvas with exam available at 5:30 pm. We’ll have a review in class and Sajin will have one separately. Here’s the study guide of what to know.