Data Visualisation
Faculty
Marybeth Sandell
CEO of Jamp Media, Partner at Content Pixies
Course length
Duration
Total hours
Credits
Language
Course type
Fee for single course
Fee for degree students
Skills you’ll learn
Overview
We all intuitively believe that fact-based decision-making is good, but we often lack the right skills required to present quantitative information in a meaningful way. Although tables and graphs are widely used, the presentation is often poorly designed, misrepresenting or obfuscating the truth. Why? Because few communicators, including financial analysts and marketing or strategy professionals, have been trained in information design and leveraging visualisation techniques to help support better decision-making.
Learning highlights
- This course is for the non-designer studying digital marketing. (It may also be attractive to data science, fintech and entreprepreneur students). It teaches data design fundamentals and introduces a variety of visualisation tools and techniques. At the end of the course, students will be able to identify the visualisation techniques that will deliver the highest impact under various scenarios. The students will learn how to present meaningful information in the most compelling and easy-to-digest fashion.
Course outline
4 classes
Session 1
Foundations and tools.
Introduction and overview
History of data viz
Session 2
Foundations and tools.
Cognitive visual consumption and bias
Discussion of final project, create teams
Session 3
Foundations and tools.
Design, label and headline guidelines for data visuals
Session 4
Foundations and tools.
Overview of tools landscape
Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Marybeth brings experience in storytelling management for print, digital, television and radio to students at Harbour.Space. She is passionate about developing and transferring skills to real jobs and helping students navigate a rapidly changing field of media, marketing, PR and communications.
She has taught classes include Feature Writing, Investigative Journalism, Web Storytelling and Mass Communications at the University of North Carolina. Her teaching is based on extensive work in multiple leadership and entrepreneurial roles at Bloomberg in Stockholm, London, Zurich, Washington D.C. and New York. At Bloomberg, her positions included managing content teams, standards training, internal and external communications and leading projects to create visual stories for print, web, TV and radio.
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Data Visualisation
by Marybeth Sandell
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Feb 17 - Mar 07, 2020
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
How to secure your spot
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
This depends on your case. Please check with the Spanish or Thai consulate in your country of residence about visa requirements. We will do our part to provide you with the necessary documents, such as the Certificate of Enrollment.
Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.