.. Copyright (C) Google, Runestone Interactive LLC This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Example Visualizations ====================== “Hollywood's Gender Imbalance” ------------------------------ Take a look at the visualization titled “Hollywood's Gender Imbalance”, which appears in `this article, authored by statistics-based media site FiveThirtyEight`_. Ask yourself the following questions. - What do you think the key point of this visualization is? - Where has the author drawn attention to, and how? - Does this visualization make the information easy to interpret? Read the article in full, then think about the following discussion questions. - Did you read every word in the article? - Did you look at every picture in the article? - Did the visualization make this information easier to interpret than the text did? “What if only non-white people voted?” -------------------------------------- FiveThirtyEight also posted an article that asks: `what if only certain subsets of US citizens voted?`_ *Before* you read this article, just scroll through the article and look only at the maps. Then, read all of the text *without* looking at any of the maps. - Which reading of the article conveyed more information? - Which reading of the article took more time? - Which reading of the article was more enjoyable? .. shortanswer:: 538_information_collection How do you think researchers got statistics on how different groups voted? .. _this article, authored by statistics-based media site FiveThirtyEight: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/next-bechdel/ .. _what if only certain subsets of US citizens voted?: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-only-men-voted-only-women-only-nonwhite-voters/