Practical Data Visualization

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Data visualization is about making the complex understandable. Whether this is a massive table of addresses, a relational database or simply a very large dataset, this class will help you use modern, interactive applications to effectively communicate trends in your data. You will craft a variety of visualizations for different audiences, work with some special forms of data (i.e. social networks, multivariate and spatial data), and you will experiment with a variety of different tools for creating data visualizations. This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the field of data visualization.