P2—Project presentation and deliverable

Due 2023-12-05, 12:00pm EST 90pts

Follow all the instructions below.

Warning: Note that this is due well before the beginning of class!

Please post any questions about this assignment on Slack.

Change log
Aim of the assignment
Instructions
Submission instructions
Academic integrity

Change log

2023-12-04: Updated to clarify that it is in person and there won’t be screen sharing.

Aim of the assignment

In this assignment, you will submit your completed deliverable of your assignment. You will also prepare a presentation to give in class to communicate the motivation of your project, your visualizations and design choices, interactivity implemented, and takeaways/insights gained.

Instructions

As part of the project, each group of ~3 students will:

Work with a real user (the partner).
Work with real datasets.
Design and implement static or interactive visualizations and infographics
Solicit and incorporate user feedback.
Communicate the final project and results through an in-class presentation and work product (report, website, video).

Project deliverable

You will deliver a report, web page, video, or some other data presentation format that is useful to your stakeholder.

The deliverable must:

Include data visualizations. You are welcome to use any technology to create these visualizations (Tableau, Excel, Altair, Plotly Dash, R Shiny…). These visualizations are expected to follow the best practices outlined in class unless you deem deviations are justified.
Demonstrate a mature visual and, if relevant, interaction design, with evidence for iterative improvement. Everything must be aesthetically pleasing and clear and have few usability issues
Include enough text, narration, annotations, animations etc. to completely tell the story, ideally using the storytelling principles as discussed in lectures and your readings.
Use data set(s) with substance and depth. There is no min/max size requirement.
The data / visualization should address an interesting question relevant to the partner or their users and convincingly solve target user tasks.

In-class presentation

Each group will prepare a short in-class presentation.

Requirements:

The presentation should be ~4 minutes in duration.
Each member of the group must speak for approximately equal portions of the presentation.
Live demos are not recommended. A pre-recorded video demonstration is preferred but with no audio—narration must be live. Demo videos are faster, you can still make eye contact with the audience while it plays, and there is little risk of technical hicups.
The presentation must be created using Google Slides and should not require any local files. I.e., any member of your team or the teaching staff should be able to run all your presentation materials. As the presentations will be conducted from the classroom computer, using Google Slides ensures that there aren’t any local dependencies that can fail.
Test your A/V setup before the day you present.
Your presentation order will be provided day-of.

Grading notes

Presentation

Here are several of the things we will be assessing when viewing your presentation:

Contribution:

Be explicit about the contribution of your work.
Highlight the key features of the tool & aspects of the work.

Content and structure:

The introduction is attention-getting, lays out the talk well, and establishes a framework for the rest of the presentation.
The presentation lays out a clear narrative that makes sense and flows.
Material included is relevant to the overall message/purpose.
Appropriate amount of material is prepared, and points made reflect well their relative importance.
There is an obvious conclusion summarizing the presentation.

Presentation skills:

Speakers maintain good eye contact with the audience and are appropriately animated (e.g., gestures, moving around, etc.).
Speakers use a clear, audible voice.
Delivery is poised, controlled, and smooth.
Good language skills and pronunciation are used.
Visual aids are well-prepared, informative, effective, and not distracting.
Length of presentation is within the assigned time limits. Points are based on main presentation time.
All team members have the same amount of time to present (no team member ≥ 1.5X another).
All team members have the same amount of time to answer questions (no team member ≥ 1.5X another).
If there is an interactive visualization, a live demo or video is included and narrated over.

Presentation & deliverable

High-quality work following best practices:

Your deliverables and presentation are well-thought-out and follow best practices we’ve learned in the course.
You have spent the time to polish your work and fix all the small, obvious issues.
It is hard to be more specific about deliverables as there will be a wide variety of submission types. They will be graded holistically.

Teaching staff’s discretion:

Meant as a stand-in for any other characteristics not accounted for elsewhere in the rubric and for more holistic evaluation. Recall our overall course grading ideal from Assignment Grading Expectations on the Syllabus:

you get 85% of the points by meeting our expectations, but the last 15% is for doing amazing work that demonstrates your creativity and deep understanding of the course material.

Submission instructions

One person from your group should make a submission to the assignment P2—Project presentation and deliverable in GradeScope.

Note: Use Gradescope’s Group Members tab to add the members of your group to your submission.
Provide a link to your Google Slides show AND a PDF export in case the link didn’t work.
Upload a copy of your final deliverable or provide a link to it, if it is a website or otherwise not uploadable.

Academic integrity

Warning: Cite everything you use from other sources! Text, images, videos, designs, code…

See the academic integrity policy on the syllabus for more detail on our expectations.