Environmental Geography
GEO 120

Poster Project
Graph Format Assignment

Objective: Create two graphs summarizing humidity data trends in your room or apartment.

Procedure:
Graph 1

  1. Access the proper excel chart format from the Geography Department's K drive.  You must be in a Geography Department computer lab to read this file. 
  2. Recreate the chart depicted in tab cIODvIH ("chart indoor/outdoor dewpoints and indoor humidity"). 
  3. Use text boxes from the draw toolbar to replace the old dates. Use vertical lines at the appropriate width to separate dates.
  4. Keep the same time scale (0, 6, 12, 18, 0...) on the x axis.
  5. Keep axes labels the same size.
  6. Increase size of title.
  7. Work a new color scheme for plot area background or lines.  Make the information stand out better.

Graph 2

  1. You have access to six different data categories: indoor temperature, indoor relative humidity, indoor dewpoint, outdoor tempeature, outdoor dewpoint, outdoor relative humidity.  Use your creativity to create a new chart, using at least two of the categories above.
  2. You have flexibility in designing the appearance of the chart.  The chart will be evaluated on the basis of readability, contrast, and accuracy.
  3. Write a short paragraph explaining trends depicted. 

 

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