Solving Public Policy Problems with Data

Catalog description

Data visualization is an often-overlooked topic in research that falls by the wayside after data collection methods and analysis. However, data visualization plays an important role in telling our stories in public policy. Specifically, this course focuses on communicating the import findings in your research to the broader audience. This course fills that void by focusing solely on the process of visualizing data. Throughout this course, we focus on how to design visualizations that are appealing to your audience and how to develop these visualizations in Tableau. Tableau is a robust, increasingly popular, interactive data visualization software. Each week of this course we examine a new topic in data visualization, via textbook, lecture, and video followed by various hands-on tutorials and assignments in Tableau. Level: Undergraduate