Visual Storytelling

Data visualization is an essential tool for both discovering and communicating key data findings. However, it’s easy to underestimate the visual polish that goes into creating effective presentation-level graphics. This course will act as a technical primer for building data visualizations in Microsoft Excel and Adobe Illustrator, but the core focus will be the graphic design decisions – color, hierarchy, font selection, labeling – that can elevate a graphic into something truly coherent, unique and memorable.