Over the weekend, you attended a co-worker’s birthday party. During the birthday celebration, your co-worker delivered the speech below. Which aspect of the speech most appealed to you? Provide an explanation for your choice. Option A: Introduction and conclusion Option B: Use of direct quotes I would like to first start by thanking my family, friends, and colleagues who have honored me with your presence today. Over the years, I have learned that there is not a specific formula for a long and prosperous life. However, I will share a few of the principles I live by and have found valuable."Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." Winston S. Churchill"To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight." Angela Lee Duckworth"Always be nice to the people you meet on your way up in life as you may meet them again on the way down." Jimmy Durante"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!" Yogi BerraI hope these words of wisdom help you create lives filled with peace, love, and joy. Thank you all for coming to celebrate my special day, and I look forward to our next celebration!

INFORMATION DESIGN PROJECT DESCRIPTIONPROJECT GOALSGain a better understanding of document design and visualizationsWrite based on a specific purpose and audienceCreate appropriate visuals from numeric dataUse visuals to support a specific point or argumentAnalyze visuals to integrate data into an argumentApply principles of design to create a visually appealing, readable documentDescriptionThis project asks you to engage with data, present data for a specific audience, and practice making effective data visualizations. The project focuses onthe fair, accurate, and ethical use of datathe conventions of writing with numbers and datahow to integrate figures into a documenthow to design effective visualizations.Audience and purpose are central to the goal of the final deliverables. As you will learn in completing this project, numbers don’t speak for themselves, and writing with data requires critical and rhetorical thought, as well as visual design skills.In working on this project, you will engage with different types of visuals, as well as the conventions of writing with data and numbers. To achieve these goals, you will select one of the data sets listed below. After reviewing the data set you select, you will decide on a point you want to make for a specific audience using the data in your data set. You will then make decisions about which data to visualize from the larger data set and you will create three data visualizations help you make your point. Then you will write about and analyze that data in brief final visual report. The final visual report you create will include the three visuals you have made, and the supporting text necessary to explain the data you have visualized and make your point.In addition to the visual report, you also will create a second deliverable. You also will compose a reflective memo that explains your choices and goals, and how the visual report deliverable achieves them.In addition to your the textbook chapter on Visual Design, you may which to use this Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (Links to an external site.) to explore various types and uses of visuals.Data visualizations bring a number of benefits to any professional document, even short ones:Though they have become extremely easy to make, people in the workplace still tend to be impressed by the extra effort and thoughtful presentation implicit in making a visualization.Data visualizations also help to make the work of digesting and interpreting data more efficient by displaying trends or illustrating the significance of specific information without poring over page after page of numbers.Because of this efficiency, visual elements are also better at communicating certain ideas more quickly than words or tabular data. Something that may take many sentences to communicate, a sudden drop in the efficiency of a process, or a surge in sales among a certain demographic, are instantly recognizable as spikes or dips along the X axis of a line graph.For example:This short report from the Department of Education (Links to an external site.) provides an overview of literacy and numeracy for men and women. In this online short report, the authors created two bar charts that are designed to show relationships between data and then they briefly explain the importance of the data.In your visual report, you will create three visualizations and integrate them into your report, providing an introduction to the topic and analysis of the data you include to make a point about the topic using your data.ASSIGNMENTFor this project, you will select a data set from the ones listed below and create a short informational report that includes at least three data visualizations that you create and that you feel best communicates the data you select from your data set in a form that maximizes the impact of the data to suit a specific audience and purpose.To create your visualizations and informational report, select one of the following data sets:Pew Trust Core Trends in Technology and the InternetOnce you have selected a data set, spend some time with the data. Identify the trends that jump out at you as most significant. As you identify your audience, think about who would want to know about the data and the point you’d like to make. You will not be able to visualize or discuss all the data in your data set. Your job is to select and visualize the data that is most relevant to your audience and the point you are making.DELIVERABLESDocument 1: Visual, Informational ReportA short, informative, visually interesting report that makes a point about your subject using the data in your data set. This report should incorporate at three visuals that you have created along with a discussion/analysis of the data in your figures. The text in your report shouldintroduce the topic and its importanceexplain the meaning of the visualspoint to the conclusions suggested by the data.You should think through and identify a clear audience. Your understanding of the audience informs how the data is presented, the form the visualizations take, and the point you use the data to make, as well as the overall purpose of the document.Document 2: Reflective AnalysisA short 250- to 500-word note that explains the following (use headings to identify each of the topics listed below):How and why you selected your data setHow you selected which data to visualize and why you visualized it in the form you didWho was your target audience and what was your overall goal/purposeHow you ensured that your visualizations of the data were fair, accurate, and clearThe raw data set used to create the report (with a citation for the data)