Project Three : The Visual Representation of Statistical Data

Project Requirements

Your third project will be to construct two visual representations of statistical data. Using the sources for educational research, find a small set of data and construct two graphics:

1. a graph in normal form (bar graph, pie chart, line graph) that will be used in a professional presentation at a conference,

OR

2. a graphic that uses an innovative approach to portraying that information that will be used in USA Today.

Both graphs should reflect professionalism in design.

The requirements of this project are:

1. Image sizes: Width for each image must be between 600 and 650 pixels wide and not to exceed 600 pixels high.
2. Each graph must use a color scheme (and neutrals).
3. Each graph should reflect a well-planned layout:
   • consistency in type
   • appropriate sizing: title or question larger than graphic information; key, if necessary, relatively out of the way and smaller than graph or chart; dominant graph or chart
   • balanced graphics and information
4. Supporting information about the data - the original source - must also be included.
5. The graphs must be created and drawn be the student, but objects used in the graph may be from other sources such as scanned from a book or saved from the Web. The bibliographic source for the image, however, must be noted in full, and handed in with this project.

The Evaluation Matrix will be constructed in class.