Multivariate Graphic

RATIONALE:

In starting this graphic I honestly became flustered at the word multivariate and did not even want to continue. However, I looked through my notes and the graphic syllabus and I was able to get a better understanding on where I was going to head. I knew I wanted to add on to my swimming results graph because I knew there was so much more data I could add. I perused through the RWU Hawks website and found two different swimming seasons that I could add. I found all the point and added two more lines to my line graph. The lines were very similar and I thought that it may be a bit confusing. I thought this may be an increase in the cognitive load but, I suddenly realized that the lines tell a story. During this assignment I forgot that there must be some sort of message that come out of your graph but in the process I found it! The Roger Williams Swim Team started in 2006 and is therefore very young. In posting the points earned at every swim meet. I was able to show how in each year that we swam, the team got better. This really shows the extreme growth in the program and the graph does a pretty good job and depicting that. I used colors and labels which is also known as dual coding. This reduced the cognitive load for the viewers which then made a successful graphic