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QBUS6860
Visual Data Analytics
Individual Assignment 6
fivethirtyeight.com
Due: 2020-11-17
Weight: 6.5%
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Individual Assignment 6
o https://fivethirtyeight.com is a popular website for aggregating and
visualising political polls
o You are required to use Tableau to reproduce the interactive graph
that appears in this webpage as closely as possible:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approvalratings/?ex_cid=irpromo
o The website also reports a very useful VDA table. You are required
to use Tableau to also reproduce this table as closely as possible
o The data for reproducing the graph and table are available on that
webpage: search for “Download this data:” and you will find links to
the CSV file. Please use dates from 23Jan 2017 to 6Nov 2020
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o You will be judged on your ability to reproduce the interactive
graph and the interactive table using Tableau
o For this Individual Assignment you are only required to submit the
Tableau .twbx file that will contain the dashboard, plus the .csv file
with the data. It is compulsory to submit both files
o There is no need to submit a Word file for this week
Individual Assignment 6
o Graph improvements: Additional 1 point (on top of 6.5) will be
given to students who will be able to create a model that will
predict the values for the future period
o Example of such prediction can be found on the same graph under
“4 Years” button in the bottom right corner of the graph
Individual Assignment 6
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