Problem Statement

The purpose of the Survey of Construction (SOC) is to provide national and regional statistics on starts and completions of new single-family and multifamily housing units and statistics on sales of new single-family houses in the United States. The Construction Price Indexes provide price indexes for single-family houses sold and for single-family houses under construction. The houses sold index incorporates the value of the land and is available quarterly at the national level and annually by region. The indexes for houses under construction are available monthly at the national level. The indexes are based on data funded by HUD and collected in the Survey of Construction (SOC).

You have been consulted to present these visualization results for single-family houses sold and for single-family houses under construction to The Department of Housing and Urban Development. With the given context, you need to create visualizations to effectively understand the data and create a dashboard using TABLEAU. (Use the concepts learned in the class).

The objectives include

Demonstrate the VISUALISATION CONTEXT

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE(First question is answered for you)

List the primary groups or individuals to whom youll be communicating.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development

If you had to narrow that to a single person, who would that be?

What does your audience care about?

What action does your audience need to take?

What is at stake? What is the benefit if the audience acts in the way you want them to? What are the risks if they dont?

WHAT?

What is that you are trying to communicate? What questions are you trying to answer/display in your visualizations? Write these as specific questions. You need to come up with 3 questions at least, each of which will be answered using one Viz.

Data preparation needed to answer the specific queries must be done.

Present the BIG IDEA.

It should: (1) articulate your point of view, (2) convey whats at stake, and (3) be a complete (and single!) sentence.

HOW?

Chart 1: What type of viz did you create? Why did you select the viz that you did?

Chart 2: What type of viz did you create? Why did you select the viz that you did?

Chart 3: What type of viz did you create? Why did you select the viz that you did?

For each of the Visualisation, identify at least 3 Gestalt principles employed.

For each of the Visualisation, mention how you strategically used pre-attentive attributes to draw the audience's attention.

Create your dashboard

Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Rgr_EEO9yijWzew7CwOWK8h-sCSWXOn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105144468347168617699&rtpof=true&sd=true

Reference: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/construction-price-indexes

Reference: https://www.census.gov/construction/cpi/index.html