Due August 29 CS 7450 - Information Visualization Fall 2000

Homework 1: Designing a Visualization

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an appreciation of just how challenging it is to design an information visualization. Below are links to two data sets. One set describes different styles of pizzas and one describes campaign contributors to the 1996 presidential race.

Your objective here is to design a visualization of one of these data sets (your choice!) that will faciliate the kinds of inquiry and study that you might expect for the data. Feel free to use colored pencils, markers, computer tools, crayons, whatever you'd like, in making your visualization. Obviously, this is just a short HW, so don't spend too much time or thought on this. Just come up with something reasonable, and write a paragraph or two explaining your visualization and why you created the design that you did. You should turn in a hardcopy of your design along with the explanatory text.

Pizza data

Contributor data