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Design Statement
My design layout for my interactive graphic was run through some of the components that Professor Jones illustrated in her video. Having compiled the information I gathered from my FitBit and sleep app, it was time to convert this information into a solid looking dashboard made on Tableau Public. Tableau Public gave me the best options for working with the information to make presentable visualizations that made sense to the consumer. I opted to use three different types of graphs, and was able to leave annotated texts on certain parts of the graphs to make notes on why the information was what it was. Within Tableau Public, the immersion made it easy for me to do components I wanted to, with one of those being highlight certain portions in different colors to make them stand out. The end result was a storyboard that showed how my fitness and sleep were affected over the last three and a half months while at WSU.
My static graphic was drawn off researching good examples on the web and from the literature provided to us. All the information from research I gathered explained that simplicity was the best course, and they wanted you to paint a well-rounded picture that told everything without the consumer having to interact. A definition I found was that static graphics typically display information that isn’t bound to change. That doesn’t bode entirely well with the nature of my assignment that has information that is bound to fluctuate from day to day, and moving forward. For this, I opted for the route of simplicity where I showed the concrete information through the bar graph of my steps taken. Based off the definition I found, I showcased my static graph in a similar arch to what was in our textbook. Found here: https://infoactive.co/data-design/ch16.html