Course Overview

Course Description

Data analytics is nearly useless if you are unable to clearly communicate what you have learned from the data. This course teaches the practical and technical skills necessary to communicate information about data clearly and effectively in written and visual form. Visualization is critical to both exploration and explanation, so the course will build both analytical and communication skills. Visualization promotes discovery, and what is discovered can be used for “storytelling” to effectively communicate, summarize, influence, explain, persuade and provide evidence to an audience. During the course, you will learn conceptual, theoretical and technical skills that will enable you to learn from data, develop professional visualizations and empower you to communicate and share your findings.

Learning Outcomes 

• The primary learning objective of this course is to provide you with practical and technical skills to visually learn from data and communicate findings. At the end of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Apply technical skills to explore and understand data
  2. Understand and apply principles of data visualization
  3. Be proficient using software to develop data visualizations
  4. Design and implement standard visualization techniques for communication
  5. Develop professional graphics to explain findings and solutions
  6. Perform “storytelling” with data for effective communication