Data graphic

Published

March 14, 2025

Instructions

For this assignment, you will produce a data visualization with a short (at most 250 words) description. Think of this data graphic as the driving force in the investigative piece you are developing.

Like the One Number Story, you will submit this assignment as a pull request to the class Quarto blog repository. Please be sure to include a CSV with the relevant data in your pull request. You will also submit a Word document to Moodle.

Data

Use the data that you have collected for your investigative piece.

Requirements

This is a group assignment. Your data graphic must include:

  • a .qmd file
  • exactly one readable, well-crafted, informative data graphic (either static or interactive)
    • include the data you used to create the data graphic in the same directory
    • include the code you used to create the data graphic in the .qmd file
  • a short (at most 250 word) description of what you want the reader to see in the data graphic

A draft of your data graphic is due in class on Tuesday, March 13. A final copy of your data graphic is due to Moodle by 5 pm on Friday, March 14.

GitHub process

Suppose that the story you are working on is group_name.

  1. Designate one person in your group to be the host. Suppose that person’s GitHub username is git_host.
    • Everyone else in the group should add git_host/quarto-blog as a new remote (called host)
  2. Open a branch in git_host/quarto-blog called group_name-graphic
  3. Create a new directory in the branch called posts/group_name-graphic/
    • Add a new file index.qmd
    • Add data files, etc.
  4. Open a pull request from git_host/quarto-blog branch group_name-graphic to sds236-s25/quarto-blog branch main
  5. As you work, everyone pushes changes to the branch (e.g., git push host group_name-graphic)
  6. When you’re done, tag me to let me know
  7. Receive feedback on your pull request via GitHub