data visualisation blog

Please refer to the course handbook for all the details about the data visualisation blog assignment.

Submit your data visualisation blog assignment here in Moodle – deadline Monday the 12th of December 2022

This task requires you to produce a series of data visualisations, which you will hand draw and upload to your blog during each thematic block  (weeks 3-11). You will therefore produce three data visualisations in total, each accompanied by some explanatory text. During the first two weeks of the course you will be supported to setup your blog, gain an underlying understanding of the ‘nature’ of data, and experiment with data visualisation, all of which will prepare you for this assessed task. It is important to stress that you are not required to be a ‘data viz’ expert from the outset of this course. Rather, the point of this task is to encourage you to experiment, be creative in your approach, and importantly, to develop your ideas over the duration of the nine weeks of the activity. Indeed, note that the assessment criteria specify development, so we’ll be looking at how your ideas progress, rather than whether any individual visualisation is ‘correct’ – see more on this below. Along with your hand-drawn data visualisation, you will write a short blog post summarising how your work has helped you to think about the course themes of ‘learning’ (block 1), ‘teaching’ (block 2), and ‘governing’ (block 3) data. Towards the end of the course, you will synthesise these end-of-block posts into a final 1000-word commentary on the task, and submit this with your three data visualisations as part of your blog. Practically, you will make your submission simply by pasting the URL of your personal course blog into the Moodle submission box, here, on or before the assignment deadline (end of week 12).