Explanation of task: 1. As per marking rubric, the criteria you are being asked to create need to be specific, well thought out, clear, and cover all contingencies (i.e. comprehensive). Criteria...

Explanation of task:

1. As per marking rubric, the criteria you are being asked to create need to be specific, well thought out, clear, and cover all contingencies (i.e. comprehensive). Criteria should not read like guidelines to prepare visualisations. They should read like benchmarks that can be used to evaluate visualisations i.e. they have to be measurable and specific. Most importantly the developed criteria should be able to implement.

2. You need to clearly state which criteria have been met/ have not been met by each visualisation, why and what the result for the quality of the visualisation is. There is also a published Scoring Rubric published specifically for Assignment one, so that should help guide you as to where to focus your efforts for the best potential score.

3. Treat the 2000 words as a guide rather than a strict limit. The final length will partially depend on the report you are analysing and the criteria you use.

So you won't be penalised for going over the 2000 words. We do, however, penalise students who are overly verbose or repetitive with their answers.

Task 1:

• You should create generic criteria as well as specific ones for tables, graphs or charts. The intention is not to develop a criteria specific to the report being analysed.


• Criteria, by definition, are standards of judgement for criticism, or rules or principles for evaluation or testing something and, for them to be valid, they need to be measurable. In other words, they can’t be subjective. For example, “clarity of information” is, by itself, not a criterion. Other examples: "Charts need to be nice"; "Tables need to be appropriate"


• Each criteria needs to be written in a way that is clear, un-ambiguous and measurable. Example for such criteria:Axes clearly labelled with a name of the variable and a scale.


• If you use a phrase “make a result look better”, then you need to tell me how this happens or occurs. In some cases, it might help to provide a specific example that satisfies (or does not satisfy) the criteria.Also, some further explanations why those criteria are important for a faithful representation of data would be useful.


• You should be using the textbook (Chapter 11) as a baseline for developing the criteria. However, if you would like to refer any additional resources/readings, examples of good reference books available in the library are postedhere.