Data Visualization Credits: 3

Catalog description

Data visualization is the art and science of turning data into clear, compelling stories using graphics and dashboards that can be easily understood by a target audience. This course emphasizes the narrative structure of communicating through data visualization and culminates with a data storytelling project. Students will learn to use a leading data visualization tool – Tableau – through a series of in-class exercises, videos and assignments. Students will employ techniques rooted in design, psychology, and cognitive science and engage in hands-on activities to critique, improve and create visualizations and stories that will resonate with the target audience.