Initial Post

“Why do we need to understand data visualisations? There is more and more data around us, and data are increasingly used in decision-making, journalism, and to make sense of the world. One of the main ways that people get access to data is through visualisations, but lots of people feel like they don’t have the skills and knowledge to make sense of visualisations. This can mean that some people feel left out of conversations about data.” – http://seeingdata.org/developing-visualisation-literacy/

Please conduct the following activity located at the following address:

http://seeingdata.org/developing-visualisation-literacy/rate-these-visualisations/

Tell us what you think of the visualisations that we used in our focus group research. Instructions below!

What to do

1. Look at the visualisations by clicking on the images below. You can choose to open the visualisation in a NEW tab or window (we recommend this) or view it in a pop-up window if you prefer to stay on this page. Some are interactive (i) and some are static (s).
2. Place the images on the grid. When you’ve looked at one, go to the grid and position the image according to whether you liked or didn’t like and learned or didn’t learn something from the visualisation (‘learning something’ could also mean confirming something you already knew). Only place the visualisations that you have looked at onto the grid. Click SUBMIT.
3. Compare your views with others. You can compare your responses to the visualisations with those of others, by clicking COMPARE.
4. Choose three of your favorite visualisations. Post a  summary of why you chose the visualisations. What caught your attention? Were they effective in presenting the provided data? If possible, explain how you would you do to improve the visualization?

Assume that you have been tasked by your employer to develop an incident response plan. Create a list of stakeholders for the IR planning committee. For each type of stakeholder, provide the reasons for inclusion and the unique aspects or vision that you believe each of these stakeholders will bring to the committee.  

Extra Credit Lab #11 C++
Design a Payroll class that has fields for an employee’s name, ID number, hourly pay rate, and number of hours worked. Write the appropriate accessor and mutator methods and a constructor that accepts the employee’s name and ID number as arguments. The class should also have a method that returns the employees gross pay, which is calculated as the number of hours worked multiplied by the hourly pay rate.
Your program will also have a main program, which creates one object of that class, initializes the fields of that object and calls the grossPay method (which is defined in the Payroll class).
The main program will ask for the Employee name, ID, pay rate, and hours worked. It will output the gross pay.
Start by creating a class diagram for the Payroll class. See chapter 13 in Starting out with C++ for information on creating classes and objects in C++.
Sample Output
Please enter the employee name Paul
Please enter the ID 77777
Please enter the pay rate 7.25
Please enter the hours worked 40
The gross pay is $290.00

Select any example of a visualization or infographic, maybe your own work or that of others. The task is to undertake a deep, detailed ‘forensic’ like assessment of the design choices made across each of the five layers of the chosen visualization’s anatomy. In each case your assessment is only concerned with one design layer at a time.For this task, take a close look at the annotation choices:

1. Start by identifying all the annotation features deployed, listing them under the headers of either project or chart annotation
2. How suitable are the choices and deployment of these annotation features? If they are not, what do you think they should have been?
3. Go through the set of ‘Influencing factors’ from the latter section of the book’s chapter to help shape your assessment and to possibly inform how you might tackle this design layer differently
4. Also, considering the range of potential annotation features, what would you do differently or additionally?

Submit a two-page document answering all of the questions above.  Be sure to show the visualization first and then thoroughly answer the above questions. Ensure that there are at least two-peer reviewed sources utilized this week to support your work.

Welcome to Week 2

As we progress to week two we begin to explore data privacy. Data flows freely throughout the internet, corporate, and commercial networks. Privacy has become paramount to businesses big and small. Understanding privacy concerns and where they come from is important you as a student, individual, employee, etc.

Pick a topic below and post your reply by Wednesday at midnight. Your response should be at least 400 words and appropriately cites your resources.

Respond to three of your classmates by Sunday at midnight. Your responses should be at least 100 words and should be substantive. You should offer additional resources, insight, or other helpful feedback. A simple “I like your post” will result in a 0.

Note: plagiarism is not tolerated in this course. Everything must be in your own words with sources! Failure to do so will result in failing grade. 

Topics:

• What is freedom of surveillance? How does it apply to you at your place of employment? Are there exceptions?
• What is an inadvertent leak of information? How has it affected the adoption of technology?
• How do businesses benefit from search engines?
• Should we allow facial recognition at sporting events? What about shopping malls?
• How much should a user post on social media? Why?

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