Week 1 viz: Draw a graph

As with almost all the weekly visualizations, I’m expecting two documents here:

• a data visualization
• a “meta document” explaining the visualization

For this week, we’re going to do our visualization on paper. I would like you to select a data visualization you find on the web (check Intro to course/viz for some links of places to look), and draw a sketch of it on paper. The sketch does not need to capture every detail of the visualization, but it should include the general ‘shape’ of the visualization.

On a separate piece of paper, please write down where you found the visualization (website, link/headline), and a few sentences that describe the ‘so what’ of your visualization. Not just “a bar chart shows the distribution of a categorical variable” but “this bar chart shows that [whatever it shows].”