Select any example of a visualization or infographic, maybe your own
work or that of others. The task is to undertake a deep, detailed
‘forensic’ like assessment of the design choices made across each of
the five layers of the chosen visualization’s anatomy. In each case
your assessment is only concerned with one design layer at a time.
For this task, take a close look at the annotation choices:
1. Start by identifying all the annotation features deployed, listing
them under the headers of either project or chart annotation
2. How suitable are the choices and deployment of these annotation
features? If they are not, what do you think they should have been?
3. Go through the set of ‘Influencing factors’ from the latter section of
the book’s chapter to help shape your assessment and to possibly
inform how you might tackle this design layer differently
4. Also, considering the range of potential annotation features, what
would you do differently or additionally?
Submit a two-page document answering all of the questions above. Be
sure to show the visualization first and then thoroughly answer the
above questions. Ensure that there are at least two-peer reviewed
sources utilized this week to support your work.
