Secret Underground Weather Machine

Hi! I have been a host for sleeping bag weekends for every weekend last year and I can confirm that it is just as you said: The weather is always nice when the prospective students are over. I think it's well done that you showed the days right before and right after the days of sleeping bag weekend. This makes it easier to understand how much of a change there is. And from the results, I would say your theory is true! I really like your idea, it's very original. Great project!

Hey, don't feel too bad about this assignment. In a way, the poorer the data is presented, the more it fits the assignment's intentions! I can take it as Poe's Law that the bar chart depicts data poorly. There is no shame in using Excel for data visualization--I didn't even know that Excel could do 3-D bar charts with that aesthetic!

I think any criticisms I might have you would have acknowledged already, and I hope I'm not drilling them in too much.
• Even if the data presented is twisted, a title and axes labels may be helpful for understanding the image, without the context of the documentation.
• I'm curious about where you got your weather data and how you twisted it? Documenting that would be informative.

I do agree that your choice of statistic to show is remarkably creative, so I give you kudos for that. :)

I do like the design of your graph. Although I am a little confused as to how to read the graph. I understand that it is supposed to be misleading, but I am still not sure how to read the story properly. A bit more detail in documentation would also be helpful.

The concept was very interesting and fun

I'm personally completely on board with this myth. The times I've hosted a student have seemed to be nicer than most other days, and when I came to visit myself as a senior in high school, the weather was remarkably pleasant, especially compared to the other schools I visited. I like how the graph looks, though it's a bit confusing. It was hard to understand what you were trying to convey based on the graph alone. If I had to make revisions, I'd begin by clearly label which days were sleeping bag weekends and which were not. Perhaps providing a color key directly on the graph itself would facilitate this.