Author: Jennifer Coffey
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Four Types of Visualizations
This week I will be discussing the different types of information visuals explained by Scott Berinato in his book Good Charts: The HBR guide to making smarter, more persuasive data visualizations. The combination of the nature (conceptual/ data-driven) of the design and the purpose (declarative/ exploratory) of the data creates four possible combinations for a potential…
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An Introduction to Data Visualization
What is data visualization? Data visualization is a representation of information in a visual manner. This could be as simple as a chart describing the clothes in your closet, or as complicated as showing the rate of homelessness in various cities across the United States. The complexity level depends on the amount of data and the representation…
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Project Insights
Over the course of the past seven weeks, I have learned two powerful insights about myself. First, I have found a new self-confidence in my voice and presence. Second, I learned that proper and in-depth planning will lead to less stress. Both of these realizations will help me in creating content in the future. In…
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Final Touches
This week is my last production week before I finally post my final videos. During this time, I planned to edit and place the final touches on my videos for my new YouTube Channel. Before I could do that, I need to get some honest feedback from people I trust. My first step this week…
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Filming and Editing
This is my second production week for creating my YouTube channel. My main focus was to record four “rough draft” videos. I needed to see how the scripts, audio, and background looked and sounded on camera. This way, I can figure out minor tweaks before posting my final videos. Filming Gathering my materials, setting up…
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Branding & YouTube Creation
During this week of production, I needed to change a few tasks around in order to stay on time with my project. Instead of filming and editing, I completed tasks that did not need any equipment. After a quick evaluation, I decided to focus on editing scripts, creating branding materials, and creating my YouTube channel.…
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Storyboards, Thought Maps, and Scripts
This week I stared the pre-production process for my upcoming YouTube channel. Part of my pre-production process is creating storyboards, thought maps, and scripts for each of the four videos I will be posting. I first started with storyboards. Before I sat down to determine how I was going to film these videos, I checked…
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Getting Organized
Goal: Create a YouTube channel to discuss the best practices of reading and reviewing books for a critical perspective. The four videos will contain content on how to read a book critically, critics to pay attention to, how to write a critical book review, and an example of a critical book review. Now that I…
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Book Reviewing Best Practices
I’ll be digging deep into the best practices of writing professional book reviews.
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CNN Report
Over the last couple of weeks, I worked on a project to test a website that I thought could use a redesign. I choose CNN because every time I use the site, I can never find what I’m looking for. I know that CNN probably has a team of designers always working on the site…
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