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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)

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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?

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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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