Data Visualization

3 credits

With ever-increasing amounts of data, the ability to understand and communicate data is becoming essential for everyone. Data visualization leverages our visual perception to provide a powerful yet accessible way to make sense of large and complex data. Students will learn to design effective visualizations for analysis and presentation based on theories and principles from graphic design, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science. They will also learn to build interactive visualization dashboards for exploring data and answering questions, and to create data stories that communicate findings through a combination of visualizations and narrative, using tools such as Vega-Altair.