Week 28 

Project: Data Visualization Tool (Continue)

Started on: Sep 14, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description:

Continuing from last week’s progress, I explored again all of the columns and rows with scatterplot and bar graphs.

There are three rows that are important in this dataset:

1. Graduate Advising Commitment Load (The workload and commitment that people commit to different committees)
2. Total Committees (total number of committees people commit)
3. Count of the dataset (how many people actually record their data)

There are different columns that are important:

1. Gender
2. Ethnicity
3. College
4. Department
5. Department Size
6. Tenure

 

Some insights that I had: 

• On average, the medium department size has more committee total and more committee service followed by small and at last large even though large has the most committees in total. The surprising thing for me is that even though Small has the least committee total it has more committee service on average. 
• It suggests that in small department sizes, people tend to take up more work and work for longer for committees. 
• In studying each college for each department size
  • In large dept size, the College of Education has the most committee service even though the College of Natural Science has the most committee totals. 
  • In medium, the Red Mccombs department on average has the most CS even though the College of Liberal Art has the most CT in total. 
  • In small and large department sizes, Jackso School of Geosciences comes out on top in small and second in large for the most committee service hours even though the committee total is very small. -> Suggesting that these people work really hard and have a lot of commitment. 
• Professor has more committees in total however on average, associate professor has more committees and more committee service of 8.97 and 2.79. respectively. 

 

Actually, when I look back at this insight is wrong since I had department size but I paired it with college instead of department.

• In small and large department sizes, Jackso School of Geosciences comes out on top in small and second in large for the most committee service hours even though the committee total is very small. -> Suggesting that these people work really hard and have a lot of commitment.

• Therefore, we need to use department size and department college

 

The new graphics that paired the committee service workload and graduate advising workload.

 

The old graphics that used only Committee Service Workload

The Elements and Principles of Design

In order to brush up on the elements and principles of design, I studied each concept and found a piece of art that exemplified it. Then, I analyzed and interpreted the piece using that element or principle. It was very enjoyable to scrounge the rich world of art history to find examples of form, line, and contrast. I felt more connected to these concepts and can definitely incorporate them more effectively into my own work. View my deep dive below.

Elements and Principles of Design PDF

 

 

I’ve been working on updating my blog caricature and banner, here are my final versions (so far anyway)! I feel like in the last year I’ve grown a lot as a designer and learned so much more about all the tools in Adobe Illustrator.

One year ago today (on Sept 12, 2022) I actually finished up my original banner, so it’s really cool to see that growth:

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And this is my caricature before and after:

 

Texas German Retractable Banner #9

Client/Prof: Margaret Blevins
Completion Status: Started on August 24
Staff Guidance: De’sha

This week my main project has been working on the TGDP banner. I’ve been focusing a lot on text/picture placement and also worked on making the background out of one of the map images.

09/04 - 09/08

Custom Course Revisions and Trainings Continue

This week was a short one due to Labor Day giving us Monday off. Still, I managed to make headway on the custom course graphics training, which De’sha has been helping me with by providing helpful feedback. Gone is the old Wiener Werkstätte poster, and in is a new custom collage combining some seminal moments from art history in the twentieth century. The new direction is bold and bright. Take a look below.

 

In addition, I brushed up on the Elements and Principles of Design, and I’m currently working on an explanatory powerpoint which shows examples of each element and principle in fine art.

Ker Blam!

Week 27

Project 1: Master of Arts in Econ (Broken Links)

Started on: Sep 7, 2023

Completed on: Sep 7, 2023

Description:

For this project, I need to go to the updated website and convert any links that are linked to live-ma-eco to ma-eco. I am very happy that this website that I worked on last December has been published. The old website looks very plain, and this website breathes a whole new vibe to the Department of Economics. Therefore, I am just excited to see how the new website is finally live. This project seems simple enough, but I need to go through each different page and check for every single link. It is a little bit of work here and there, but I completed it in a couple of hours.

Project 2: Data Visualization Project

Started on: Sep 7, 2023

Staff Guidance: Stacy

Description:

This project is very interesting. I was given a dataset on the faculty members at UT Austin and needed to visualize with different charts and graphs to see the distribution of an average of committees that faculties were on. This is a classic data visualization project that involved me exploring the dataset and building various beautiful charts to explain and explore the data. I used Tableau for this visualization. I need to poke around to see different things in the tools and create a narrative for the dataset. Overall, it is a really fun project.

Training: Tableau – Data Visualization Tool

Started on: Sep 8,2023

Description:

I got some training with Tableau where I got to build bar charts that display different data relating to the dataset on sales. The graph explains the sales for each representative and in each region. I find that working in Tableau is very easy and super intuitive. I love how Tableau simplifies the data visualization task and helps craft good visually appealing storytelling if the data analysts utilize it in their own interest.

 

This is another graph on a different dataset. The dataset is about unemployment by gender and age groups throughout the years. This is the area chart that shows the unemployment sum throughout year by each age group and with gender filter.