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Graphic Analysis of a Process
Assignment Five
assignment made: April 16
due Thursday, May 9
Self Commentary |Submission
Directions | Resources
Using Photoshop, produce a graphic (or set of graphics) that interprets,
explains or illustrates a process, change, development or disintegration
and reveals the dynamic relations of its factors, causes, techniques or
other elements. Whether the narrative you're visualizing and interpreting
is a small domestic chore ("How to Build a Set of Book Shelves")
or an international event ("The Escalation of Violence in the Palestinian/Israeli
Conflict: How Did It Get So Bad?"), it should be a process that requires
some explanation or speaks to the needs of a actual audience.
Examples of such narratives include a magic trick, Napoleon's
March on Moscow, executing the hammer throw, brewing beer, the development
and decline of Disco, daily Duluth bus routes, etc.
Graphics should include multiple variables or layers: for example,
a bus route graphic could simultaneously show locations, times, routes,
daily repetitions; on page 56 of his book, Tufte discusses a single magic-trick
illustration with ten layers of information. Combined, the variables on
your graphic(s) should include 20 data points.
You should cite the sources for all the information you include in a
foot note or on a Works Cited page.
These graphics should be quantified--that is, should include numbers,
distances, times, etc. as appropriate--using Tufte's three techniques
of direct labels, encodings and self representing scales (13).
Depending on the subject matter, audience, purpose and intended medium,
you should decide whether your graphics will appear on successive pages,
or as part of the same eye span.
You may also write textual captions to accompany the graphics
or include text within the graphics themselves.
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Self Commentary
As always, you'll write a self commentary,
which, along with discussing the usual design and process issues, will also
describe the specific person, situation, and decision that your project
addresses.
Submission Directions for the Presenting Evidence
for Decision Makers project
You can submit these graphics either in printed form or
as a URL to an HTML page or pages posted on the Web. This is
not, however, an assignment about Web design.
Resources for Presenting Evidence for Decision
Makers
I will place resources for this assignment here.
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