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Literacy Assignment 3: Greenhouse Gases
Data source: NY Times Article
Objective:
To think creatively and critically about data visualization decisions and motivation.
Deliverable:
1 one-page PDF (no MSWORD, please!) writeup that responds to the questions below.
Grading standards:
Your PDF will be graded on the following:
- 100% Successfully turned in a PDF with reasonable answers
Assignment Description:
For this assignment, you will need to analyze the following graphic and respond to the questions/prompts below. Please submit your responses as a one-page PDF via LearningSuite.
You must respond to the following questions.
This graphic was published in a NY Times article.
- What do you notice when you first look at this graph? What jumps out at you?
- What claim is the graph making? What evidence do you have that the creator of the graph was trying to make that claim?
- How do the two graphs (left and right) enhance each other and the story in the data?
- How does the author of this graph use color to make claims?
- What trends do you notice in the U.S. Sources of Greenhouse Gases over time? (Be careful not to speculate - use the data!)
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