Data Visualization: Storytelling Strategies

Harvard HKS

This course prepares students to become critical consumers and producers of data visualizations. Promoting evidence-based policy requires technical expertise, ethical awareness, and an ability to create authentic, relatable stories. Through hands-on exercises, focused on real world public policy challenges, students will learn to source, clean, and analyze data as input to design compelling infographics, websites, and short videos. . We will craft narratives that humanize the subjects…