Assignment 1: Sparks Presentation

Schedule / Sign-up Sheet 👈

In teams of 5, choose from one of the visualization practitioners/teams below that you find inspiring and prepare a short set of slides, to be presented at the beginning of class on the day for which you signed up. You may not sign up for a practitioner/team that has already been taken.

Your presentation should be 10min., with an additional 5min. for discussion.

Submit your group’s presentation (google slides or PDF only) through the assignment form and individually, your peer assessments by Wednesday 11:59pm ET the day before your scheduled time to present.

Part I: Background

Describe this group/individual’s body of work. Consider:

Try to include multiple (at least three) examples of their work as illustrations of these points, but don’t feel the need to analyze discuss of them at length.

Part II: Analyze One Project in depth

Focus on one specific project of theirs which you find interesting. It doesn’t necessarily have to be what you think is their “best” project.

Show us what it’s about, how it works, and then answer:

Part III: For Discussion

Over the course of your presentation, ask 3 questions for discussion with your classmates. Good starters are things you learned (e.g. design or implementation decisions) which you want to apply to your assignments, things that may have been points of disagreement amongst your teammates, or things that may have been confusing. If you can find a way to have each question relate to a specific piece of the designer’s work, that’s even better.

Historical Innovators

Contemporary Practitioners/Teams

Grading Criteria