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Telling Stories With Data: Course Description

This document provides a course description for a data visualization course. The course will teach students how to understand data and tell stories with data through visual representations. Students will learn data visualization and information design theory, user experience principles, and how to apply the design process. The course outcomes include familiarity with theory, understanding design principles, comfort with tools, and experimentation. Recommended resources include a handbook on data visualization. Students will be graded on class participation, critiques, identifying a data set and analysis, a creative brief, and a final data visualization project.

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Telling Stories With Data: Course Description

This document provides a course description for a data visualization course. The course will teach students how to understand data and tell stories with data through visual representations. Students will learn data visualization and information design theory, user experience principles, and how to apply the design process. The course outcomes include familiarity with theory, understanding design principles, comfort with tools, and experimentation. Recommended resources include a handbook on data visualization. Students will be graded on class participation, critiques, identifying a data set and analysis, a creative brief, and a final data visualization project.

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Telling Stories with Data

Course Description

According to data visualisation pioneer Stephen Few — “We have a data problem.”

Ubiquitous sensors and increasingly reliable connectivity has provided the world
with enormous amounts of information — 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated
everyday to be specific. This data by itself is not very useful.

Data Visualisation is the art of understanding how humans perceive our visual
environment and applying that knowledge to visually represent data. The goal is to
turn data into information and that information into knowledge. This course will
focus on principles and techniques of data visualisation that are technology and
platform agnostic. We will learn how to tell the stories that underlie the data to
explain, persuade and inform ourselves and others.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Familiarity with data visualisation and information design theory, fundamentals,


and ethics
• Understanding of design and user-experience (UX) principles
• Comfort with data visualisation and design process
• Experimentation with prominent data visualisation tools to understand best fits
and limitations

Recommended Resources

Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design 2nd Edition by Andy Kirk
ISBN: 978-1-5264-6893-2
ISBN: 978-1-5264-6892-5 (pbk)

Additional reading material and resources will be distributed during the course.
Grading

• Class Participation (20 points) - All readings need to be completed before class
to develop fluency with the design language.

• Design Critiques (30 points) - Each will be a 500 - 1000 word critique of a
visualisation.

• Data Set Identification and Analysis (40 points) - This is the first part of the
final project. You will identify a data set for the project and understand it’s
potential for visualisation.

• Creative Brief (60 points) - This is the second part of your project. You will
develop a document that outlines the objective, audience, message, context and
design elements — the who, what, where and when of your data set. The
expected length is 1000 - 1500 words.

• Final Data Visualisation (150 points) - The final project is the manifestation of
your creative brief and data set analysis. The expectation is that this should be
polished and professional enough to be published.

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