Data Visualization ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course gives students the essential concepts and tools for data visualization. It teaches history, theories and techniques required to understand and represent data online. It allows students in digital communication and other concentrations to effectively analyze and use charts, graphs, polls, maps, interactive quizzes and other tools for representing data. Students will learn to obtain, analyze and present data, learn the basics of appropriate coding and apps, analyze data visualizations for issues of bias or misrepresentation, and represent data in an ethical and truthful ways. A suggested sequence is Writing for Digital Media, followed by News & Feature Writing. These courses should be taken prior to 21st Century Journalism. Strongly recommended Statistics, and/or Contemporary Math, Math for the Inquiring Mind, or another math course that includes statistics. In addition, students should plan to conduct tutorials on various programs or applications that will help them conduct this work.