Visual Analytics and Visualization

Catalog description

The general field of visualization focuses on transformations of data to visual representations in order to take advantage of human cognitive capabilities to more efficiently and effectively understand the story being told by the data. Specifically, visual analytics, an advanced form of visualization, is used to understand complex and large-scale data. In this course, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of visualization and the related user experience in producing and interpreting visualizations of business data. Student will also learn to use selected visual analytic tool(s) to conduct various types of analyses. P: BIA 261 and BIA 354 , or instructor consent.