COMP5048 Assignment 1A: Individual Work
COMP5048 Visual Analytics 2025 S1 Assignment 1A
Deadline: March 27 (Week 5) Thursday 11:59pm (pdf on Canvas)
Construct good visualisations ofTWO of the following data to answer the given task.
• You can use a suitable visualisation method chosen from the tools assigned to each category.
• Create visualisations for each data according to the instructions given.
• In your report, explain your justification for your selected visualisation and analysis methods, then evaluate and compare the pros and cons of your visualisations.
Data: Choose one data from each category A, B:
Category A:
For this category, visualise the data using any tool from the following: D3, R
A1: Wine Quality Data
A2: Glass Classification Data
For the selected data:
• Visual Analysis 1: Compute a Parallel Coordinates of the data with a good ordering of the columns and justify your selection.
• Visual Analysis 2: Compute an MDS ofthe data. Based on the MDS, select two columns and compute a Scatter Plot using the selected columns.
Category B:
For this category, visualise the data using any tool from the following:
yEd, Tulip, NetworkX, Gephi
B1: Board Game Reviews
• Visual Analysis 1:
。 Compute a subgraph of the top 150 important board games using graph analysis.
。 Visualise the subgraph displaying the analysis result.
• Visual Analysis 2:
。 Extract a subgraph based on your chosen topic of interest (e.g., specific category of boardgames).
。 Analyse and visualise the subgraph displaying the analysis result.
B2: K-Pop Graph
• Visual Analysis 1:
。 Compute a subgraph of the top 150 important artists and labels using graph analysis.
。 Visualise the subgraph displaying the analysis result.
• Visual Analysis 2:
。 Extract a subgraph based on your chosen topic of interest (e.g., focus on certain labels or collaborators of a certain artist).
。 Analyse and visualise the subgraph displaying the analysis result.
Submission: Minimum 8 page report
Minimum 4 pages per data:
• 1st page: Visual Analysis 1
• 2nd page: Discussion on Visual Analysis 1
• 3rd page: Visual Analysis 2
• 4th pages: Discussion of Visual Analysis 2
• Write your Discussion of each Visual Analysis with the following headings:
。 Design: tools and layouts with justification (design choice)
。 Evaluation: explain the findings you can see from each visualisation
。 Pros and Cons
。 Comparison
• Acknowledge all your sources in References
• You must acknowledge any usage of AI
Appendix (not included in page count):
• Provide code, if applicable, in Appendix
• In Appendix, you can include one more visual analysis for each data:
。 Should be substantially different results using different techniques
。 Include description as above for each alternative visual analysis
。 Add comparison between different visualisations ofthe same data
Marking Rubric: (6 marks per data; total 12 marks)
• Quality of Visual Analysis 1: 3 marks (Visualisation: 1.5 mark, Discussion: 1.5 mark)
• Quality of Visual Analysis 2: 3 marks (Visualisation: 1.5 mark, Discussion: 1.5 mark)