• practice more with interaction

You can access the data itself and information on these data on Alice Walsh’s GitHub.

Explore the data, and discuss with a classmate:

• What questions can you answer about the data?
• What visualizations can you build to answer these questions?
• How could interaction help your audience make sense of the data?

Consider:

• What data?
• Why (user intent)?
• How (visual encoding)?

Download the starter project for the yarn data and explore the two .js files.

• What are the differences between the plots?
• What is the data transform doing for the big vs. small company plot?

What interaction can you add to this plot to help the user understand the data better?

Take a look at an interactive scatterplot for IMDB data

• What would be the audience for this visualization?

Here’s another example of an interactive visualization

Discuss with a partner:

• What do you like about this visualization?
• What would you change?

The Ultimate Halloween Candy Power Ranking

• How was data collected?
• What questions can you answer with this data?
• What visualizations would answer these questions?
• How can interaction help users use these visualizations?