POLS228-24SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2024 start

Data Visualisation

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 November 2024
End Date: Sunday, 15 December 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 17 November 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 December 2024

Description

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.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100-level COMS or POLS, or
any 60 points at 100-level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 10:00 - 12:00 James Logie 104
11 Nov - 15 Dec
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 James Logie 104
11 Nov - 15 Dec
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 010 Computer Lab
11 Nov - 15 Dec

Course Coordinator

Daria Kuznetsova

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Data visualisation problem sets 45% Weekly assignments to complete during the semester. They are equally weighted.
Final exam 35% There will be a take-home open book final exam scheduled during the examination period
Online discussions 20% Each week you will post on LEARN forum and comment on posts of others

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $844.00

International fee $3,950.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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