Generate three exploratory visualizations based on the spreadsheet data using either Google Sheets itself or other off-the-shelf tools. Place SVG or PDF exports of these charts (after editing them in Illustrator or Sketch) in the “A Thousand Suns” shared folder in Google Drive (create a folder for yourself named after your email address).
Next to each chart, add some text summing up its ‘take home message’ in a sentence or two
Take a look at the Google Sheets User’s Manual. There are demo videos for most of its functionality.
In addition, add three pencil sketches to the your folder exploring ways in which you could represent the nuclear testing data without using a map. Focus on what aspects of the data you plan to present, which you will omit, and what needs to be summed, grouped, or averaged in order be most comprehensible.
Pick an additional data set that you think would make for an interesting counterpoint to the nuclear testing data. Think in particular about addressing the ‘compared to what’ and ‘so what’ sides of the question in a way that either lets us understand the scale of the main data set, or gives us a deeper understanding of the political regimes, technology, culture, social developments, etc. that were going on during the relevant time periods.
Locate a source on the web for this contextual data set and bring it to class