Community Profile Rough Drafts

A rough draft does not have to have the polish of a final project, but it should be close. You should have created the visualizations that you plan to use. Your classmates should be able to evaluate a rough draft on its merits, without a guided tour of forthcoming features. A complete rough draft includes:

• Clean data in spreadsheets, already normalized, sorted, manipulated
• Visualizations of the data with labeled axes
• Captions
• Credits
• A headline
• For your reporting piece: at least three links to other reporting that puts your story in a broader context.
• Introductory text that includes information gleaned from at least one human source.
• A source list.

You’re going to file your rough draft in a gist, which should include three separate files:

• index.html is your rough draft
• storyboard.md or storyboard.html (your choice) is the version of the story board that you submitted on Feb 25.
• pitch.md (or pitch.html, again, your choice) is the version of the pitch submitted Feb 18.

File your draft by adding it to the assignments document

Stuck?

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