Design, however, is only half the story. To ensure we do not succumb to their allure of authority, we must hone our critical reading skills and to determine whether a visualization has been designed in a clear and transparent way (i.e., from a white hat designer) or whether it seeks to mislead the reader (i.e., created by a black hat designer).

This part of the assignment will be conducted in class, Monday, 3/9. You can work on this part of the assignment individually or in pairs.

Submission Details. Please submit this form, once per visualization. If you do not finish analyzing the 5 visualization within the in-class session, please submit the remainder by noon on Friday, 3/13 Monday, 3/30. Resubmissions will not be available for this part of the assignment.

Grading Criteria. This part of the assignment will be scored out a maximum of 5 points. Each visualization will be worth 1 point, and we will grade you based on how well you justify why your determination that the visualization was white hat or black hat.

Your Visualizations

Here are your five visualizations. They have been randomly selected from all the visualizations submitted by you and your peers for this assignment. For each visualization, your task is to:

1. determine whether it is an example of a white hat or black hat visualization
2. provide a short (4-5 sentence) description of why

If you see your own visualization here, please click the Refresh link next to it to be randomly assigned a new visualization. We will operate on the honor system. Please click these links for this circumstance only (and not because you are unsure how to critically read a particular visualization).

Click a visualization to see it at a higher resolution.