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Example questions for DataVis exam

The document outlines example questions and exercises for a Data Visualization exam, focusing on analyzing various types of charts and infographics. It includes both practical exercises that require critical evaluation of visualizations and open-ended questions about visualization concepts, design processes, and principles. The goal is to assess understanding of data abstraction, visualization idioms, and effective communication of information through visual means.

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Example questions for DataVis exam

The document outlines example questions and exercises for a Data Visualization exam, focusing on analyzing various types of charts and infographics. It includes both practical exercises that require critical evaluation of visualizations and open-ended questions about visualization concepts, design processes, and principles. The goal is to assess understanding of data abstraction, visualization idioms, and effective communication of information through visual means.

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Example questions for DataVis exam

The exam will consist of open questions and exercises on the course’s topics.

Examples of exercises
1) Consider the following chart and answer the following questions

• Which kind of chart is?


• How many attributes are represented?
• Is the data-ink ratio good?
• Is it colorblind-safe? Can the color choice be improved and how?
• Is there something deceptive? What?
• Which is, in your opinion, the goal of this kind of visualization?

2) Consider the following chart and answer the following questions

• Which type of chart is used? Which is the task supported by the chart?
• How many attributes are displayed, and which is their type?
• Comment the two deceptive aspects of the visualization.
• Is the colormap used for the lines effective?
3) Consider the following infographic shown in a tv show.

• How many attributes do you see mapped in the map?


• Which are the channels used to represent them?
• Is there anything not well designed? If so, how would you fix it?

4) Consider the followint dataset from kaggle (each box is a column description, 14 columns)

• Perform a data abstraction, describing type of variables, cardinality, etc.


• Define two tasks that could be supported with a visualization, providing task abstraction in
terms of actions on targets. and suggest a possible visualization solution

Here are some examples of open questions:


• What is data abstraction and why is it useful to design a visualization solution?
• Which data types can be included in a dataset?
• Can you sketch of the vis design process?
• What is task abstraction? What do we mean talking about actions and targets?
• What is a visualization idiom according to Munzner's definition?
• Can you define marks and channels? Are all the channels similarly effective?
• Define the concepts of expressiveness, effectiveness, discriminability, separability
of channels.
• What are pre-attentive cues and why are they important in visualization?
How can we enforce the perception of grouped items? Are grouping methods
similarly effective?
• Discuss the problem of validating a visualization design.
• What is color? Which color-related channels are best suited for visualization of
categorical and ordinal attributes?
• Summarize the characteristics of specific idioms (bar chart, pie chart, stacked bar
chart, heatmap, point chart, etc.) Discuss for which specific tasks are best suited.
• Discuss problems in data selection, statistical aggregation, dimensionality
reduction. Discuss visualization idioms for statistical distributions of attribute values.
• Discuss the problem of uncertainty and uncertainty visualization.
• Discuss the principles of graphical integrity introduced by Tufte. What is the lie
factor? Provide some examples.
• What is Scientific Visualization. Which data are typically visualized in scientific
visualization?
• Which are the main problems in choropleth maps visualization?
• What is the modifiable area unit problem? How can spatial aggregation change the
perceived value of an attribute (e.g., pollution) in a particular location?
• Describe the possible methods that we can use to define the layout of a node-link
network visualization.
• Write a pseudo-code to create a force-based layout optimization. Which forces are
typically applied to the nodes?
• Describe for which tasks it is better to use node-link plots or adjacency matrices to
represent network data.
• Describe two popular interaction idioms in visualization.
• Discuss the design guideline “Overview first, Zoom and Filter, Detail on Demand”
Why it is often stressed?
• Which are the main issues in zooming? How can they be reduced? What is
semantic zooming?
• How can the effectiveness of the interaction be evaluated?

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