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INFS 5116 – DATA VISUALISATION
Visualisation Project Report (SP5 2019)
Due 1 December by 11pm
General instructions:
• This assignment is worth 50% of your final grade and it is due no later than 11pm on
Sunday 1 December.
• You will need to submit your assignment via learnonline.
• The submitted assignment needs to be a single file in pdf file format.
• This assignment will be marked out of 50.
Assessment task
General guidelines:
• Your final submission should be in a report format. There is no word limit but you should
aim for at least 10 but no more than 20 pages excluding any appendices.
• There is no minimum number of visualisations as such but you should present a range of
visualisations of different types that show features of your data from multiple
perspectives as well as address elementary, intermediate and overall level questions of
interest.
• You should aim to use a range of tools to produce your visualisations. In particular, some
of the graphics in your final report should be produced using R.
• Your report will be assessed not only on the quality and the design of your visualisations
ut also on your discussion of insights and conclusions that can be drawn from your
visualisations.
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Suggested format for your Visualisation Project Report is as follows:
Title page
Dashboard (5 marks)
Design and include here a ‘dashboard’ that provides a visual summary of your key findings.
Ensure your dashboard follows the guidelines discussed in this course!
1. Introduction (5 marks)
Describe is some detail the context for the project and the key question(s) you aim to
address using visualisations.
2. Data Sources (5 marks)
Describe the data source(s) that you are using in your visualisation project. Note: Some
of the content in this section can be repeated from your project plan. Also indicate which
tools will be used to create your visualisations.
3. Visualisation Results (28 marks)
Present and discuss your visualisations here. You can rename this section if you wish and
divide it into subsections as you see fit.
Aim to tell a story with your graphics and focus on the context of the data you are using
for this project.
4. Conclusions (5 marks)
Include your overall conclusions here.
5. References (2 marks)
Provide a list of all references that you have cited in the project.
Appendix (optional)
Here you can provide additional information about your data sources, e.g. variable
definitions, as well as code, examples of story boards or any other technical and non-technical
information you think is useful to include in support of the work presented in the main body
of the report.