Assignment 2 (15%) - Visual Design

Due date: 28th January 2021 by 12 noon

Platform for submission: UUM OL (Assignment 2)
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with practice and experience creating data
maps with Tableau. In essence, you have to do the followings:

STEP 1:

Watch the video shared in our FB page to learn the basic on how to create choropleth maps
and proportional symbol maps.

STEP 2:

Download the data file "Educational attainment for adults age 25 and older for the U.S.,
States, and counties, 1970-2012 from the link below. This data is from the US Census
bureau. The file contains 3283 rows of data (one for each county in the US including Puerto
Rico) : http://bit.ly/DataVisAssignment2
STEP 3:

Create the following visualizations:

1) Choropleth maps (File name: TaskA)

Create 2 choropleth maps (on 2 tabs in Tableau) from data in the following fields:

1. "Percent of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher, 1990"

2. "Percent of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher, 2008 -2012"

2) Proportional symbol maps (File name: TaskB)

Create 4 proportional symbol maps (on 4 additional tabs in Tableau) using data in the following
4 fields (NOTE: be careful that you are NOT selecting the "percent" fields):

1. "Less than a high school diploma, 2008-2012"

2. "High school diploma only, 2008-2012"

3. "Some college or associate degree, 2008-2012"

4. "Bachelor's degree or higher, 2008-2012"

STEP 3:

Upload your solutions which are TWO (2) Tableau workbooks (.twb files) onto the UUM OL.
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Use the following samples to guide you in creating the visualizations but you may use your
own creativity and choice of colour scheme that suit the requirements.
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We will evaluate the effectiveness and design aspects of your visualizations. Please ensure
that you include considerations on proper labelling, formatting, and heading. In essence, we
will look out for the indicators of visual encoding performed in your visualizations as outlined
below:

Visual encoding

As visualisers, we encode our data using two main visual properties, marks and attributes.
Marks are visual placeholders representing data items, such as distinct records or discrete
groupings, depending on the form of your tabulation Indicators of marks are:

Attributes are variations in the visual appearance of marks to represent the values associated
with each data item as illustrated below:
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