Sketch #8

chart #1
chart #2
chart #3

chart#4
chart#5
Table

This was my favorite sketch that we have done just because it was pretty easy once you decided what you were doing. Finding something with statistics was hard just because I couldnt really get a big enough data set. I found this information on collegeboard so its probably outdated but its still worked. I decided to do the most popular majors that RWU has to offer because I was stressfully picking classes before I did this sketch. Once I had the information the table came easily and then I literally just chose the entire data set and clicked charts. I think the thing that I liked least about this sketch was the limitations of excel. There isnt much you can do property wise to try and choose the layout and colors of the graph. This was annoying just because I would have rather positioned the majors on the bottom differently because I find them hard to read. I decided to do 5 different charts to represent my data. The first chart I did was called an area chart. I don't think this is a very good representation of the data. You cannot easily see where each percentage is and it is hard to read the curve of the graph. The second chart I chose was a line chart. This chart again was not a great way to represent the data. you cannot really easily see where the major matches up with the line and there is too much going on on the page. This is definitely increasing the cognitive load. The next graph is a bar graph. I think that this is a good way to represent the data because you can easily see the separation between the each of the majors and where they match to the percentage. My fourth graph was a scatter plot. This was not the best way to show the data because there is too much going on and it is hard to match up the information. My 5th and final chart was a pie chart. This was the best representation of the data. The information is easy to depict and you can clearly see where the percentage are relating to one another. Overall I enjoyed this assignment.