Today's class exercise puts together several concepts from the past few weeks and the readings you were to have prepared for today.  In your BP Groups, you will:

• Find relevant data on your market/industry from the databases introduced in class (links to the PowerPoint resources here)--or, select some relevant data from the sources your group has alread found.

• Create two representations of this data, one which you consider unethical and one which you consider ethical (Example here).

• Write a 150 word defense of each representation that explains why these representations are ethical or unethical? Refer to (use) two specific quotes from the article you read for today in creating your defense.Consider the guiding questions for Visual Ethics on pages 102 and 103 of the article related to
  • Content
    • Selection
    • Emphasis
    • Framing
    • Accuracy
  • Graphic Type
  • Aesthetics
  • Placement
  • Personal Values (group)
  • Community Values (society, business type, etc.)

• If you need help creating a chart in Excel, here is a Youtube video. Attach this document to a blog post, tagged Data Representation.