1. With one of the tutors, or another student, review your blog post proposing how you might use the technique demonstrated in the flowgraph from week two's "Task for Today" to analyse information from your chosen Pachube feed. Post notes from your discussion on your blog.

2. With one of the tutors, or another student, review your 250 word (maximum) brief for your Analytics Engine. Keep in mind that the assessment criteria states that the brief should grow clearly from your research into and S.W.O.T analysis of your chosen Pachube feed. Your goal is to answer the question ... "How will your Analytics Engine allow a viewer to draw conclusions that would be difficult (or impossible) to reach by interrogating the data in its raw form?" Post notes from your discussion on your blog.

Note: Flowgraphs don't exist in a vacuum; depending on the students concept they will need to link/embed flowgraphs in objects, spaces, vehicles, players that in some cases will need to be custom designed and built in SketchUp.

3. With both of these discussions in mind visit the site http://www.coolinfographics.com/ and find 3 images that represent information in a way that both reinforces your ideas and offer potential to be translated into a real time environment.

Here is an interesting one relating to the course itself:

4. Based on the discussions above and the precedent infographics you've found on http://www.coolinfographics.com/ work on a demonstration of one part of your Analytics Engine.

Complete by the beginning of the next tutorial.

1. Upload the three precedent images you found at http://www.coolinfographics.com/ . Include a caption under each that speculates how you might translate an infographic that is currently represented in a still or moving image into a real time interactive environment. For example, arrows could become particle effects ... coloured shapes could become three dimensional ... implied movement could become actual movement ... Timelines could be linked to the time of day ... etc, etc.

2. Post a short video clip showing the demonstration you made in Task for Today step 4 above.

3. Post an image of the flowgraph that is controlling the demonstration you made in Task for Today step 4 above. Ensure that when the image is viewed that the nodes and their settings are clearly visible.

4. Keep adding to your Research post as you find more valuable info during the rest of the course. This will help you immeasurably with your Research assignment.