As the business world becomes more data-driven, the ability to turn data into clear visualizations is critical for both exploring what is in a dataset and communicating your findings to others.
The Data Visualization course is designed to give you an understanding of how to create effective, appropriate plots and the practical skills you’ll need to extract insights from data and convey them convincingly to a variety of audiences. Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you’ll learn how to design and create plots that turn data into compelling visuals that can be quickly and easily understood.
By the end of this course, you will understand what makes a plot effective in telling your data’s story. You will also learn how to avoid creating visuals that are confusing, misleading, or overwhelming-for both your audience and yourself- and how to create clear, impactful plots with confidence.
If you’re ready to go beyond the basic plots of spreadsheet programs and create impressive, informative visualizations for any situation, this course is for you.
Business analysts, data analysts, market intelligence analysts, junior data scientists, other roles that work with data regularly
Individuals who have some experience manipulating data and want to improve their ability to explore datasets and communicate the insights they discover by making effective data visualizations
Key Takeaways:
Gather insights from data
View and explore data by making relevant plots using plot elements effectively
Use exploration techniques to unearth patterns and trends that matter
Create visualizations for different audiences
Tailor your plots based on your audience’s background, knowledge, and expectations
Have an array of plot options to choose from, to engage and convince without overwhelming your audience
Inform and persuade decision makers
Turn your insight and recommendation into an accessible visualization
Tell your story with a plot that makes your point clear, unambiguous, and convincing
What you’ll learn from the Applied Data Visualization Course
Exploring data with visualizations
Learn how predictive models are transformed into generative models
Tune the output of LLMs by adjusting their temperature
Understand the fundamental ideas behind the transformer architecture
Communicating data insights to an audience
Design a plot to clearly and quickly convey an insight
Consider the best way to approach a particular audience
Emphasize your message by adding and adjusting plot elements
Streamline a plot to remove distractions and increase impact
Adjust plots for different applications, such as a presentation or a report
Going beyond basic plots
Add interactivity to engage users
Balance richer experience against increased complexity for users
Understand dashboard design principles
Combine several plots into an effective dashboard
Using Plotly to visualize data
Quickly create plots from data with Plotly express · Alter and add plot elements using the update tools
Control the fine details of a plot with graph objects
Combine the Plotly tools to make a plot for nearly any situation
Visualization theory
Explore how the human visual system affects how plots are understood
Learn common concerns and mistakes that can lead to confusing or unclear plots
Discover how to make human perception work for you rather than against you
Apply visualization theory to improve your plots and other visual communication
Business analysts, data analysts, market intelligence analysts, junior data scientists, other roles that work with data regularly
Individuals who have some experience manipulating data and want to improve their ability to explore datasets and communicate the insights they discover by making effective data visualizations
Key Takeaways:
Gather insights from data
View and explore data by making relevant plots using plot elements effectively
Use exploration techniques to unearth patterns and trends that matter
Create visualizations for different audiences
Tailor your plots based on your audience’s background, knowledge, and expectations
Have an array of plot options to choose from, to engage and convince without overwhelming your audience
Inform and persuade decision makers
Turn your insight and recommendation into an accessible visualization
Tell your story with a plot that makes your point clear, unambiguous, and convincing
After completing this Data Visualization course, you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge to make clear, impressive, and most important of all – effective plots to discover what data can tell you and to communicate your findings clearly and persuasively. This will put you in a position to make data-driven decisions yourself and inform and convince decision makers.
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Course Syllabus
Prerequisite: Data Wrangling with Python course, or strong Python and data coding skills:
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