i5:Storytelling with Data

Catalog description

Prerequisite: ENGL 1120 or Consent of Instructor and Advisor. Data visualization tells compelling human-centered stories with data. It supports communicating, understanding, and decision-making. In this course, students become acquainted with storytelling and the development, approaches, methods, and techniques of data visualization. Students learn best practices for creating data displays—graphs, charts, illustrations, maps, interactive displays, and other data visuals—for industry, research, education, and the media. They analyze case studies on how data is visualized in these contexts and they are able to follow practitioners in action. By the course's end, students design and build their own data visualization projects. Shares lecture with TCOM 5061 with additional expectations for graduate credit.