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Week 6: The Power of Visualizations Group 1 is on initial post/discussion leader duty this week

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Week 6: The Power of Visualizations

Group 1 is on initial post/discussion leader duty this week.  Groups 2, 3 are on reply duty. 

For all groups, be sure you have read this week's readings and viewed the PowerPoint presentation before embarking on this discussion.

Watch the following video from BBC Four, Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes, on global health data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

This week's question is a bit more open-ended than previous weeks.  Prof. Rosling (BBC, 2010) states "Having the data is not enough.  I have to show it in ways that people both enjoy and understand." 

A multi-part question follows:

Part 1 of Initial Post Duty, possible questions (you do not need to respond to ALL of these):

Did you find the visualization 'enjoyable and easy to understand'?  Why or why not?  What features of the visualization made it enjoyable or easy to understand?  Was the visualization powerful and/or persuasive?  If you found the visualization lacking in some way, how was it lacking?
Other criteria, from the Watson (2017) reading this week, for the value in storytelling in visualizations suggest that this approach

  • Helps people get the gist of an idea quickly
  • Helps people remember facts better
  • Are memorable and enjoyable

These echo Rosling's desire to make the visualization 'enjoyable and easy to understand'.  Do any 'ring true'?

What about the Planning and the Art of Storytelling article by Jay Walljasper (2018).  He mentions 6 strategies for telling memorable, inspiring stories...are any relevant here?  (Yes, go back to review the article, mention the specific strategy/strategies here (and cite the source).

Part 2 of the initial post duty:  Either at the same time as your initial post, or by Friday this week at the latest:

Find a visualization that  you DO find powerful and/or persuasive (or that satisfy any of the 'good visualization and storytelling' criteria we've covered this week.) 

Post either a 'snip' of the image/visualization or a link to the image/visualization.  Provide a short description of what the visualization represents AND a few lines on WHY you find the visualization either powerful, persuasive or both.

Reply Group:  Any or all of the above is appropriate.  If you know of a visualization you'd like to share, by all means do so.  Otherwise you may react to the BBC Four video or a visualization shared by an initial post group member.

References

BBC. (2010, Nov 26). Hans Rosling's 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four [Video File].  Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Walljasper, J. (2018, June). Planning and the art of storytelling. Planning, 84(6), 28-31.

Watson, H.J. (2017). Data visualization, data interpreters and storytelling. Business Intelligence Journal, 21(1), 5-10.

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