Course Code:
vizdata
Duration:
7 hours
Course Outline:
Introduction
- Course Overview
- Data Tables are for computers: disadvantages of using spreadsheets
- Why Visualize data: an image is worth a thousand ROWS (and COLUMNS)
- Storytelling: it's kind of data art
DATA Visualization: You can'tt have data visualization without DATA
- Getting Data
- Formatting Data
- Understanding Data
- What is ETL and why you should care about it
- Data munging: the devil is in the details
Transitioning to a visualized world
- Visualization tools: letting excel pick the graph for you
- R vs Python: let the geek battle begging
- Leveraging the InternetS: [add your favourite new online tool here]
Data VISUALIZATION: choosing how to view your Data and still make some sense
- How to represent your Data: using the right components
- Time Series Data
- Discrete points in time
- Continous data
- Data Proportions: everything is part of something
- Data Relationships: correlation is not causation and other *fun* phrases
- Data Comparison: difference across variables
- Spacial Relationships: mapping data is cool!