Communication critique

For each question below do the following:

• Who is the target audience? What is the communication medium? What is the goal the communication is trying to accomplish?

• Discuss how each of the four principles for effective communication are or are not used.

• Discuss how each of the strategies for effective communication are or are not used.

• Are there ways to improve how the content was communicated?

Question 1: stat20 website

Critique our course website, www.stat20.org/ (either the whole website or a specific part e.g. one set of notes/slides, etc).

Question 2: a data visualization

Any data visualization. Could be something in our course or anywhere else. Some suggestions

• Check out Flowing data, for example

  • Where bars out number grocery stores

  • Commonnness of Divorce in America

  • Life satisfaction and age

  • Rhythm of food

Question 3: something else

Choose a piece of public communication. This could be anything e.g. a news article, a website, a visualization, etc. Post a link to the piece so we can see what you are talking about. For example, you could pick AirBnB’s pitch deck to venture capitalists.