Power BI

The project requires students to formulate a data analysis and presentation goal and to generate (1) a series of “data questions”; (2) corresponding data transformations and models; and (3) a set of initial sketches of the associated visual representations.

mottos in the course is that data visualization is not only about visual representation, but also about asking good questions and generating appropriate information from the data

I do not have a definite answer to these questions, but I can’t help but notice that we, as a community, may be at fault here. With our obsession with whether a pie chart is “better“ than a bar chart, is it possible that we have lost sight of what actually really matters? Let me be blunt: it does not really matter how pretty a visualization is and whether it uses the latest technology or the fanciest graph. These are nice things to have, for sure. But at the end of the day, what really matters is thinking. Appropriate and effective thinking.