INF2-FDS: S1 Week 5 Workshop - Visualisation

We're looking forward to seeing you at the S1 Week 5 workshops, where we'll try to apply principles and guidance on producing good visualisations to examples of coursework 1 from 2020-21. In previous years, students have found this exercise very valuable. 

You'll get most out of the workshop if you've completed the S1 Week 4 task, but you should still get something out of the workshop if you've not had time to undertake the preparation.

Workshop Plan

In the workshop session, you will need to do the following:

1. Join a table, aiming to have no more than 5 people on each table.
2. Review the preparation document (above) and the visualisation principles handout (copies should also be on your table).
3. One person should share their screen on the table's display.
4. The screen sharer should go to Learn →Assessment →Examples of Previous Assessment → Coursework 1 - Data wrangling and visualisation. From this page open in separate windows or browser tabs:
   1. Sample 1, Sample 2 and Sample 3
   2. the shared spreadsheet corresponding to your workshop session
5. For each of Sample 1, 2 and 3, zoom in or out in the PDF viewer so that you can see the whole page, from top to bottom, including the page number. The page number text should be legible at this magnification.  
6. Find out which group the table corresponds to - the tables are labelled "Group A" through to "Group F", anticlockwise from the door of AT5.04. In the spreadsheet, click on the tab at the bottom for the sheet corresponding to your group (e.g. "Group A" or "Group B").
7. Together compare Question 6 for each of Sample 1, Sample 2 and Sample 3, and agree how to mark the three samples on the criteria outlined in the preparation instructions and the visualisation principles.  
   • You should not need to zoom in or out from the size you set in step 5 to be able to read the visualisation. (We instruct our markers not to zoom in or out in order to be able to view the visualisations.)
   • You may also want to assess the quality of the explanation and the code, either by an overall assessment of the quality, or by using the Explanation and Code criteria linked above.
8. Enter the marks on the relevant line of your spreadsheet.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for Question 3 and Question 4.
10. When you're finished, you can look at the "All Results By Sample" in the shared spreadsheet to see how your marking compares with other groups.
11. Reflect on:
    1. How similar or different your marks were to other groups, on each sample and each criterion?
    2. How difficult did you find it to agree on a mark?
    3. What practices would you adopt in your work?
    4. Do you think the overall marks are reasonable, compared to the University Common Marking scheme?
    5. How would you design marking criteria if you were teaching data visualisation?