In the plot, the data points themselves contain a large amount of information. My emotion chart is similar in that at any given (x, y) pair, you’ll find a data point that describes a complex phenomenon.

My teammates were useful in helping me see what the assignment was meant to be: representing data in a “creatively significant” way. That is, to find data that was important to me, make up a creative way of representing it that at the same time was useful in making the data simple to take in and understand.