I thought this would have been a more substantial post.

Mapping out a plan:

In order to actually begin thinking about production project B I have to write up a blog, and map out a plan of the processes that I need to undertake to get the ball rolling.

1) Find a set of data.
It would be great if this was data that I hold some interested in, or that would give me motivation to complete this assessment. Either way it has to be a broad set of data, applicable to a dataviz in a way that would allow exploration and discovery.

2) Mind map and document the most effective way of visually presenting that data.
Okay, so since I have no skill or knowledge whatsoever on building data visualisations, this is going to be more of a proposal data viz, one that I can show through different images, or perhaps an animated image or slideshow how the dataviz is going to function and allow exploration. I’ll probably work digitally, on photoshop because it will eliminate that cause for scanning where I don’t actually own a scanner.

3) Make the damn thing.
That is pretty self explanatory, and hand it in before the due date. I need to get this started before the next tutorial, which is Wednesday. I need to have at least found my data set, and have explored possibilities of how to represent it visually.

4) Write the rationale.
Again, let’s try to get this done before 2 hours prior to the due date. We’ll aim for a couple of days before.

Okay, so I basically want to knock this over in a week if I can. So that I have time to reflect, edit if I need to and most likely fix any spelling and grammar mistakes I manage to leave on my rationale.

Sounds so simple doesn’t it?

All the more reason to get started.



P.s. I miss Networked Media lectures. On the other hand, I like having a spare hour and a half.