Data Visualisation

This course equips students with skills to create informative and appealing visualisations of data. Appealing and informative visuals help to communicate your ideas and results to others. Learning to create effective data visualisations also teaches you to read and critically evaluate graphs-good and bad-created by others. Students will learn about the fundamental principles of effective data visualisation and different ways to visualise data, including mapping and interactive graphs. Data visualisation skills are in demand in a wide range of sectors - strategic communication, public policy, political campaigns, news media, business, journalism, and information technology to name a few. We will use popular and powerful open-source statistical software RStudio and ggplot package, which are employed routinely across many industries in many countries. This course requires no programming or coding experience.