School of Professional Studies - QUAN 201 Signature Assignment #3: Spaces in Transition Data visualization has never been so prevalent. With the advances in technology that facilitate turning data into visually appealing and visually meaningful representations, and the facility with which these are disseminated on the web, data analysts and common folk can tell the story of numbers through graphics. For this assignment, you will create an Infographic. The term Infographic has become ubiquitous parlance for data visualizations that take us beyond the simple bar or line graph to visual, even artistic, interpretations of data. Consider Mccandless' Beautiful Data (Module 1). Infographic is also the term used for a collection of data visualizations curated onto a single layout, with text and image integration that guides the reader's understanding of the data represented (this is what you will create). Referencing the module readings, you will write a narrative piece (similar to the Harlem article) about a specific community, a neighborhood or city - depending on the available supportive resources. Your analysis will focus on the population changes that have taken place within that community. Consider this You are a longtime resident of community X. Over the years and decades you have watched your neighborhood undergo noticeable changes in the population of residents. With that qualitative knowledge, you decide to investigate what the actual changes have been by locating and analyzing Census data. Using this data you write a short article about the changes to submit to your local newspaper and create an Infographic that more visually tells the story to accompany the piece. Preparation STEP 1 Select a community to analyze A city/town/county Neighborhoods are often difficult to target in the federal data, because they are usually unofficial boundaries, within a large metropolitan area (i.e. New York, Los Angeles, Boston) However, the NYC boroughs are counties, which can be located in the federal data - if you want to write about a neighborhood within a borough, you are welcome to do so, noting when the data is borough level versus neighborhood level (email instructor with ?s) STEP 2 Search the web for multiple (min 2) good mediaews sources that provide supportive information about the population of the community (similar to the Harlem article from the module), Keep in mind you will look at Census data for: 2000, 2010 and you are writing today (2013) The sources should provide you ideas that explain some of the population and community changes, and characterize the residents' take on the changes, etc. STEP 3 Navigate Quick Facts Census data and Select your State followed by the City or County o Note: NYC Boroughs are Counties, i.e. Brooklyn = Kings County Review current data (be careful to note most of the current tables show an estimate and not the Census count), but the Census Population Data is obtained by: Click on "Want more? Browse data sets for..." (top of table) - where you will find more data tables, grouped by type of data Select Demographic Profile under Demographic profile from the 2010 Census