Intention

The initial goal of the project was to show how unit counts typically don't accurately represent course workloads, however, it was hard to gather the data to be able to communicate that idea (since there wasn't a database for previous course unit counts). Since I still wanted to do something related to the amount of time students spend on a course, I then decided to try to show some trend from semester to semester, extrapolating that data to make a general point. For this specific work, I chose to correlate the workload of students with their satisfaction with the course, driving home the point that more spending more hours a week on a course had a negative effect on the course's overall rating. In order to better drive home the point, I chose to not scale the y-axis and have the y-axis not span the entire range of values. This led to the trend appearing to be more dramatic than it actually wass. In addition to that, the animated face at the bottom, along with the changing color of the arrows and numbers were used to further impose the "forceful" point of view that this trend was detrimental for the students learning experience.