Read Healy’s introductory chapter from Data Visualization for Social Science. Pay special attention to all of the images in the article and come to class prepared to explain the point he is making with each of them.
Complete at least three representations of the current wall-clock time (ignore days, weeks, moons, etc. for now) and document your ideas with text and sketches in the “Right Twice a Day” folder on google drive.
Each of these should consist of a pencil sketch or vector drawing and an explanation of how each value (hour, minute, or second) is being transformed into a particular retinal variable (or a combination of them)
For each of your three approaches, sketch out what it would look like for the following times:
1:15 A.M.
1:15 P.M
7:45 P.M.
There should be 9 drawings in total: 3 concepts ⨉ 3 different times of day
Create a folder in the “Right Twice a Day” directory named after your email address and upload the photos of how your three concepts represent those three clock times. Name them like this:
Right Twice a Day/<your email>/Concept-1.jpg
Right Twice a Day/<your email>/Concept-2.jpg
Right Twice a Day/<your email>/Concept-3.jpg
Add a google doc in which you explain the logic of each of the concepts in terms of how the hour, minute, and second values will be translated into the size, color, position, opacity, etc. of the shapes that represent them. Save this document as:
Right Twice a Day/<your email>/Process
Extra credit: Take an initial swing at implementing one of your sketches using P5. Duplicate the project template and give it a working title. Then start messing around with its sketch.js file, incorporating what you’ve learned from our previous work with p5 and the examples on the project page.