First African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, went on to professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.
One of the founders of the NAACP.
Organized The Exhibit of American Negroes at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, with 363 photographs and a number of charts, graphs and maps documenting and commemorating the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century.
This week, Anthony Starks launched the 2023 edition of the #DuboisChallenge2023
Homework Pick one of this year’s 10 challenge graphics as described on https://twitter.com/ajstarks/status/1622587992710737920 and recreate it on your platform, as precisely as possible.
Explore https://twitter.com/ajstarks for several helpful links, including a GitHub repository with the data for all the figures.
Munzner breaks down Task Abstraction into Action Verbs and Target Nouns.
Munzner uses Analyze, Search and Query as levels of an action taxonomy:
Analyze concerns the high-level goals of the user
Search focuses on the need to locate interesting items within the displayed data
Query looks at different aspects of the extraction of information from a visualization.
A user may want to either Consume information already generated, or Produce new material for some purpose.
The Consume analysis goal subdivides into
Important
The Discover goal is not allowed in your semester project.
A user may want to either Consume information already generated, or Produce new material for some purpose.
The Produce analysis goal subdivides into
Munzner observes that each of the analyze goals requires the user to search for items of interest within the visualization.
Location Known | Location Unknown | |
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Target Known | Lookup | Locate |
Target Unknown | Browse | Explore |
Finally, once the items of interest have been found, the user is likely to want to extract some sort of detail information from the visualization.
Munzner splits this level into categories based on the number of targets considered:
The Targets are the aspects of the data of interest to the user - it is the thing on which the chosen actions acts.
Munzner describes 4 abstract target kinds, 1 set that applies very broadly, 1 that applies to anything that carries attributes, and 2 specialized domain target types:
Task: Open up https://new.mta.info/document/59281, one of the proposed redesigns of the MTA transit maps.
Work in pairs: Articulate at least 4 different tasks that this map helps a user perform. Each task combines 1 action with 1 target. Also include a domain-adapted description.
MVJ examples:
Work in pairs. Write down a full specification of this graphic following Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics:
This component of the course builds on course design work by Niklas Elmqvist.
Detailed guidelines are available on Blackboard. Overall Procedure:
CUNYGCVis2023
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