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ASSIGNMENT 02 -- Plot

  • The assignment (below) includes coding and reading
  • Due: Midnight on Sunday, 26 Sep
    • Check Canvas for submission details
  • Learning goals
    • Practice getting data into Observable
    • Simple and quick charts with Plot
    • Simple embedding
  • Provide feedback -- especially if you think we're going too fast!!
    • Ask questions in class or with piazza or during office hours

Coding

  • Create an Observable notebook
    • Get some data into the notebook via an API or an attached file
    • It should be tabular data such as CSV (or easily made into tabular data)
    • The data can be something that you've worked with in the past or are thinking about for a term project
    • It must be clean and readily accessible -- you do NOT want to spend a lot of time accessing cleaning, organizing
    • If you're not sure what to use for data, contact me -- either office hours or arrange a time to connect on Teams
  • Visualize the data with Observable Plot
    • Something basic is fine.
    • In your notebook, describe the purpose/meaning of the visualization (in a couple sentences)
    • Make sure you cite any and all references that you used (data sources, publications, notebooks, websites, etc.)
  • Embed the visualization in your gh-pages site
    • Create a new page on your site or use the page that you created in Assignment #1 last week
    • Add some descriptive text that explains to the reader what it is they're looking at and why it's interesting.
    • Note: the audience for your website may be different than the audience for your Observable notebook
  • This entire assignment need not take a lot of coding.
    • Extra Credit: Major awards for 3 submissions (criteria: clean well-documented code, compelling story & visualization)

Reading