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    Lab Work Week 7 - Data Visualisation - Specification

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    This document provides instructions for a data visualization task. Students must visualize sensor data on temperature and humidity from two datasets using Tableau. The task involves answering 5 questions: 1) Identifying the data types in the datasets, 2) Selecting suitable visual variables for one of the datasets, 3) Designing a visualization in Tableau for one of the datasets, 4) Providing insights from the visualization, and 5) Critiquing a provided visualization based on audience, questions answered, design principles, and suggested improvements. The document includes links to the sensor datasets and details submission requirements.

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    This document provides instructions for a data visualization task. Students must visualize sensor data on temperature and humidity from two datasets using Tableau. The task involves answering 5 questions: 1) Identifying the data types in the datasets, 2) Selecting suitable visual variables for one of the datasets, 3) Designing a visualization in Tableau for one of the datasets, 4) Providing insights from the visualization, and 5) Critiquing a provided visualization based on audience, questions answered, design principles, and suggested improvements. The document includes links to the sensor datasets and details submission requirements.

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    This document provides instructions for a data visualization task. Students must visualize sensor data on temperature and humidity from two datasets using Tableau. The task involves answering 5 questions: 1) Identifying the data types in the datasets, 2) Selecting suitable visual variables for one of the datasets, 3) Designing a visualization in Tableau for one of the datasets, 4) Providing insights from the visualization, and 5) Critiquing a provided visualization based on audience, questions answered, design principles, and suggested improvements. The document includes links to the sensor datasets and details submission requirements.

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    SIT123: Data Capture Technologies

    Lab Work Week 7: Data Visualization (30 marks)


    In this task, we will design and develop visualizations for sensor data.

    Due Date Friday 8:00pm, 10th September 2021

    Pre-requisites: You must do the following before this task

    1. Attend Class (Lecture) & Online Seminar


    2. What following resources and videos on introduction to Tableau and how to build
    basic visualizations (you might need to provide your details to be able to watch the
    videos)
    https://www.tableau.com/learn/tutorials/on-demand/tableau-interface
    https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/guides/get-started-tutorial/en-us/get-started-
    tutorial-connect.html
    https://www.tableau.com/learn/tutorials/on-demand/getting-started
    https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/07/data-visualization-made-easy/

    3. Read this sheet from top to bottom

    Task Objective
    This is an individual task. You will need to design and develop a visualization for the sensor
    data shared here:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ResskTdqMN2Md770ICK99ehIWURBSsgz/view?usp=sharing
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m8uRS9a7UOJrQn2mfCD_XYbF5AJo6JZH/view?usp=sharing

    Software Required
    Tableau - Available in the lab

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    Task Submission Details
    There are 5 questions in this task. Answer all of them in this word document itself and submit to
    unit site.

    Q1. What data types can you identify in the two data sets given? Use
    the information provided in the lecture, and identify the data types
    available in your datasets.
    (3 marks)
    The data types are. Categorical Nominal (Stamp), Categorical Ordinal (Millis) Quantitative
    Interval (Datetime), and Quantitative Ratio (Temp and Hum)

    Q2. Select one of the two data sets. Using your understanding of the
    given data, identify which visual variables are suitable to be used with
    your selected data set. Provide details of the visual variables and your
    justification here.
    (4 marks)
    For either of the data sets you could use the temp/humidity and the datetime variables. As both
    of these are quantitative you would use a point for each humidity/temperature value for each of
    the datetimes. An appropriate way to visualise the data and see trends would be a line graph.
    As each value for the temp can be connected to another in sequential order, this makes it easy
    to see gradients, patterns and sudden changes

    Q3. Design a visualization in Tableau to visualise one of the given


    data sets. Your visualization does not necessarily need to include all
    the visual variables you have listed in Q2. It should however be easy
    to understand, and have a clear message. Provide a screenshot of
    your visualization here.
    (10 marks)

    2
    Q4. Use the visualization in Q3 to provide some insights to the sensor
    data. Provide the discussion below.
    (5 marks)
    From the data we can see an initial rise in the humidity, followed by volatility and then the
    humidity drops slightly and steady’s out to a flat gradient. Each data value is a point mark and
    they are joined in a line graph, this makes it easy to see each points individual value as well as
    the overall trend for sections of the graph.

    Q5. Use your visualization knowledge to critique the given


    visualization below. Consider the following in your critique:
    ● Who is the audience? (expert? non-expert?)
    ● What questions does this visualization answer?
    ● What design principles best describe why it is good / bad?
    ● Why do you like / dislike this visualization?
    ● Can you suggest any improvements?

    3
    a) Cattle herd – population changes in Australia (4 marks)

    Your Critique:
    The audience is for non-experts as it is easy to read and understand. The visualisation answers
    how much specific areas of Australia have had their cattle populations change by. Which will
    indicate how much meat and other animal products are produced in each area. The colour
    choices are good at showing the data, which being an increase and red being a decrease with
    white as the neutral is all very intuitive when looking at the graph, even if there wasn’t a key.
    The population labels are very crowed, but still important to have. All around I do like this
    visualisation as it has a very clear message that is being portrayed and is hard to mis-interpret.

    b) Go to http://covid-19-au.com and check the interactive visualizations (4 marks)


    Your Critique:
    The audience for this data is Australians who want to inform themselves on the various aspects
    of covid statistics in specific areas of the country. This visualisation shows many statistics from
    total cases, active cases, deaths, etc. Almost any question someone has will be findable in this
    graph. The interactivity allows a much more vast selection of data to be portrayed and does so
    without clustering up the image, having popups when clicking sections or zooming in to see

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    more detail, all add to a better design. There are multiple different charts that are some to
    visualise the same or different data in multiple ways. Such as a geochart that’s colour coded
    from black - blue - white to indicate an increase in the statistic selected. Line graphs overlayed
    with bar charts of various colours to easily distinguish lines that overlap and give an easily
    readable key. This form of displaying information is very affective at getting many messaged
    and answers across and is readable by anyone that wants the data to be simple, complex or
    anywhere in between,

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