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final project I

final project II

final project III

Portfolio

This is my public portfolio for Telling Stories with Data at CMU!

About me

Hi! My name is Lehan Xu, and I use she/her/hers pronouns. I am a second-year Master of Arts Management student at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. I also completed my undergraduate studies at CMU, majoring in Economics and Statistics with minors in Business Administration and Drama.

What I hope to learn

1. I hope to learn how to improve my use of design elements, such as color, text, layout, and visualization type, so that they are accessible and clear.
2. I hope to learn critique methodologies and practice giving fair, constructive critiques of data visualizations, along with recommendations for improvement.
3. I hope to develop the ability to make effective design decisions within context, ensuring that the narrative of a visualization aligns with the larger story.

When I graduate from the program, I would love to work as an Arts Manager with a focus on the performing arts industry. I believe it is essential to create charts that are accessible, clear, and purposeful - charts that tell a story aligned with their intended message, especially when the audience include people of different backgrounds who may not be familiar with data.

Portfolio

Assignment: Visualizing Government Debt

For this assignment, make sure you set up and link to a new page. This page is linking to a new Markdown document called visualizing-government-debt.md. For links to Markdown files in your repository, you can just include the name of the page without the .md extension.

Assignment 3&4: Critique by Design

For this assignment, make sure you set up and link to a new page. This page is linking to a new Markdown document called critique-by-design.md.

Final project

Part I Part II Part III(final-project-part-three)

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Other stuff you can do (you can remove this section - it’s just for your reference.)

Changing text

You can change text, like this:

Here’s some bold text. Here’s some italic text. Here’s some strikethrough text.

Creating tables

You can build tables like this:

Name	Type of pet	Favority activity 1	FA 2	FA 3	FA 4
Eli	cat	Sleeping	Eating	Being pet	Plotting to overthow dog empire
Howard	dog	You	You	You	Eating
Frankenstein	fish	Swimming	Eating	Blowing bubbles	Forgetting

An easy-to-use template generator tool can be found here

You can use different headings, like this:

Here’s a large title (H1)

Here’s a subtitle (H2)

…and so on (H3)

You get the idea - just don’t forget the space between the # and your title. #Title won’t work, but # Title will.

Adding images

Here’s an example of how to add an image to my portfolio.

Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash

Alternately, you can set the size of the image using just a bit of HTML:

Remember that you’ll need to upload the image into your repository, or include a link to the image somewhere else.

Setting up a separate page

So here’s the code you’ll need to add to your own site to create a second page.

1. First, create a new page in your repository (for example, dataviz1.md)
2. Next, add a link to that page by inserting the following into your readme.md page:

[title](dataviz) or [dataviz](https://cmustudent.github.io/portfolio/dataviz.html) or [CMU](https://www.cmu.edu)

Any of those formats will work. Here’s some examples of working links:

[title](dataviz) = title
[dataviz](https://cmustudent.github.io/portfolio/dataviz.html) = dataviz
[CMU](https://www.cmu.edu) = CMU

Make sure to check these from your publicly accessible URL to make sure they’re working correctly (not from the preview tab).

Looking for more? A nice Markdown guide can be found here

References

List any references you used here.

AI acknowledgements

If you used AI to help you complete this assignment (within the parameters of the instruction and course guidelines), detail your use of AI for this assignment here.