Professional Development & Training

You’ll learn how to:

• Implement the best practices of data visualization design

• Choose the most appropriate chart or graph to represent different types data

• Build your own data visualization toolbox of applications and websites

• Design presentations, infographics and dashboards

• Communicate trends, relationships and patterns in multiple formats

• Understand the elements of effective storytelling

• Tailor your presentation to your audience

• Turn data into actionable insights for data-driven business decisions

• Complete a capstone project to include in your business portfolio

This program is designed for:

• Managers

• Entrepreneurs

• Sales & marketing professionals

• Data analysts

• Data scientists

• Product managers

• Engineers & developers

• Researchers & designers

• Accounting & finance professionals

• Operations & logistics managers

• PR professionals

• Any professionals who interpret, present and share data

Course Descriptions

Foundations of Data Visualization
Learn to analyze for data credibility, evaluate data to support insights and choose appropriate types of data visuzalizations as well as begin building your own data visualization toolbox. 

• Analyze a visualization for data credibility.
• Evaluate data to support insights.
• Choose appropriate types of data visualizations.
• Critique data visualizations.
• Build a data visualization toolbox.

Applying Design Principles to Data Visualization
Learn to utilize color and design principles to optimize understanding and accessibility of charts.

• Demonstrate ability to focus audience's attention on the key message in a chart.
• Identify false visualizations.
• Utilize color to optimize understanding and accessibility of charts.
• Identify deception or bias in charts and data visualizations.
• Build a data visualization toolbox.

Data Storytelling
Learn why storytelling with data is important and how to apply effective storytelling techniques in business situations. 

Infographics: Design and Publishing
Learn to design, build and evaluate the success of an infographic:

• Design an infographic using data visualizations, text and layout
• Build an infographic landing page
• Write a message to an influencer website for infographic promotion.
• Evaluate the success of an infographic.

Dashboards: Tools and Best Practices
Learn best practices in dashboard design and how to build dashboards using Microsoft Excel and Tableau Public. 

• Critique a dashboard design.
• Demonstrate best practices in dashboard design.
• Build a dashboard using Excel.
• Build a dashboard using Tableau Public.

Presenting with Data: Tools and Best Practices
Learn to build presentation slides with optimized text and design that employ the data story arc. 

• Apply DataViz Design to presentation tools.
• Use the Data Story Arc to build presentation slides.
• Optimize use of text in presentation slides.
• Communicate insights to senior management.