{"id":2935,"date":"2022-08-21T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2022-08-21T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T19:53:20","slug":"syllabus-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/syllabus-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your first assignment is a sketching activity to begin thinking about how information \u2014 particularly numerical information \u2014 is represented visually.<\/p>\n<p>Take about 15-30 minutes to sketch by hand a visualization of information from the course syllabus. Don&#8217;t worry about your chart knowledge or drawing ability! This is just a starting point for Day 1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s recommended that you visualize how the points add up for the different types of assignments (daily assignments, discussions and quizzes), but you can choose a different aspect of the syllabus if you&#8217;d like.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a sketch \u2014 it doesn&#8217;t need to be perfect or elaborate by any means, but it should be clear <em>what<\/em> you&#8217;re showing with some attempt at accuracy. If you are making a pie chart, for example, a slice representing 15 should be substantially smaller than a slice representing 80. You may want to try several approaches before choosing one.<\/li>\n<li>Scan or take a photo of your sketch to submit to Canvas.<\/li>\n<li>Write 1-2 sentences explaining what you created and why. There are no wrong answers today!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complete the assignment by submitting the following materials to the corresponding assignment dropbox in Canvas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A photo or scan of your sketch<\/li>\n<li>Short written explanation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your first assignment is a sketching activity to begin thinking about how information \u2014 particularly numerical information \u2014 is represented visually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murrowcourses.com\/graphics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}