Visual Storytelling

Catalog description

Data visualization is an essential tool for both discovering and communicating key data findings. However, it’s easy to underestimate the visual polish that goes into creating effective presentation-level graphics. This course will act as a technical primer for building data visualizations in Microsoft Excel and Adobe Illustrator, but the core focus will be the graphic design decisions – color, hierarchy, font selection, labeling – that can elevate a graphic into something truly coherent, unique and memorable.