Redesigning The Hindu Data Point Stories (IITM Data Visualization Jan 2023)

[venkatrajam]

For this assignment, we'll use data stories from The Hindu Data Point. Use what you have learned in Week 4 & Week 5 for doing this assignment.

Select a story that you like, study it carefully and redesign it. Specifically I want you to focus on understanding the data that powers the story, and how it is visually encoded to tell the intended story. Document your design process, capturing the following:

• What is the story the author is trying to tell?
• What the data he/she is using to tell the story? Describe its details -- type of data, extent of the data, dimensions of the data, gaps in the data, what data is essential and what is irrelevant.
• How is it encoded, problems with it and how you attempted to improve it.

You may choose to expand or curtail the scope of the data used in the story, or add an additional dataset to tell the story better. But do not deviate from the main intent of the original story. In other words, it is a redesign exercise, and hence I do not want you tell a different, unrelated story.

While you should provide a link to the original story, it might be useful to capture and display inline, appropriate parts of the original visualization, and your own design iterations to produce a coherent documentation.

For reference, take a look at what the previous batches (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) did with this assignment.