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Have you ever tried to explain your data to stakeholders who does not appreciate your insights? Are you impressed with dashboards that can help users to answer their own questions and facilitate data discovery?
The answer to these lies in how you visualise your data. Data visualisation is not simply creating charts. It encompasses a series of planning and data-related activities to help you present your insights effectively.
In this hands-on course, you will learn all the basic skills and techniques to design and create effective and aesthetically pleasing data visualisations to help you become more productive at work, be it for reporting or analyses purposes. We will also cover the art of creating interactive dashboards and touch briefly on infographics to learn practical knowledge to improve your communication and presentation skills
What You'll Learn
Plan and design
- Analyse business problem and audience to establish objectives for data storytelling and visualisation
- Select appropriate visualisation techniques and information displays to convey data and findings
- Select and organise appropriate elements to create informative and dynamic data displays
- Assess the style and needs of the audience and adjust the language and presentation formats
Develop and troubleshoot
- Describe the differences among different data types and table structures
- Undertake simple data preparation steps to cleanse data for analytics and visualisation
- Organise and analyse data to present trends and correlations
- Develop interactive graphics, visuals and other technical features into the data visualisation
- Discuss limitations with data and highlight potential issues with interpretations of findings
- Organise and analyse data to present trends and correlations via alternative dashboard and infographics
- Develop interactive graphics, visuals and other technical features into the dashboard and infographics
- Discuss limitations with data and highlight potential issues with interpretations of findings pertaining to dashboard and infographics
Present and communicate
- Adopt the usage of visual cues to convey key meaning and insights effectively
- Create concise and insightful commentary to accompany visualisation and describe the context
- Describe data trends and patterns in the narrative format to cater to different groups of audience and scenario
Feedback and improve
- Demonstrate an understanding of automation and workflow to streamline data preparation steps to design a real-time dashboard
- Appreciate the importance of obtaining timely feedback from audience to update the objectives of data visualisation and refine the presentation elements
- Discuss key change management concepts and develop plans to obtain buy-in from stakeholders
Minimum Entry Requirement
- Be able to read, listen and speak of English to a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills System (ESS) Literacy Level 5
- Be able to have numeracy skills to a proficiency level equivalent to Employability Skills Sys-tem (ESS) Numeracy Level 5