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Data Visualisation Lab — Show, Do Not Decorate

Redesign five bad Helio Verde quarterly-review charts using Tufte data-ink discipline, Cleveland perceptual hierarchy, Munzner task taxonomy, and modern colourblind-safe craft.

5 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español

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About this simulation

Redesign five bad Helio Verde quarterly-review charts using Tufte data-ink discipline, Cleveland perceptual hierarchy, Munzner task taxonomy, and modern colourblind-safe craft. Score every redesign against a six-item discipline checklist (chart-type fit, data-ink, perceptual encoding, colour accessibility, axis honesty, labelling completeness). Discover that the chart is not the deliverable — the argument is.

Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 5 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • 1. Chart-type fit (Cleveland + Munzner)
  • 2. Data-ink ratio (Tufte)
  • 3. Perceptual encoding
  • 4. Colour palette and accessibility
  • 5. Axis honesty (lie factor)
  • 6. Labelling completeness

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Redesign Decisions — Six-Item Discipline Checklist
  • Case-by-Case Scorecard
  • Discipline Score by Case (out of 18)

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Data Analytics & BI.

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