A Case Study of Data Visualization and Storytelling Workshop for Middle School Students
P. Ruchikachorn, P. Duangklad, and T. Ruangdej, A Case Study of Data Visualization and Storytelling Workshop for Middle School Students, PacificVis Posters, Tianjin, China, 2020. [Honorable Mention Award]
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Visualization and storytelling skills can be trained during early school years. We aimed to teach visualization knowledge through a workshop whose participants were 100 middle school students across Thailand. With several tangible materials and an assigned topic, a group of five students collected data, mostly from a primary source, produced a visualization and gave a short presentation on data insights. Despite different backgrounds, all groups shared similar visualization types. Concrete and abstract data representations in pictographs, bar charts, and pie charts were popular.