June 15 to July 17 – 5 Week Online Data Visualization Course for Professionals
The University of Edinburgh and the University of St. Andrews are hosting a certified, 10-credit, online course in data visualization from June 15 – July 17. As part of the pilot program, there are a fair amount of fee waivers available (https://www.ed.ac.uk/bayes/about-us/our-work/education/workforce-development/eligibility-funding).
The course is targeted at professionals across all sectors – finance and other industry, heritage, creatives and the third sector, sports, education and the public sector. Delivered online, this course aims to use a flexible approach to practical, hands-on learning to equip participants with the skills to use visualisation to uncover insight, to improve question answering, information discovery, to support informed decision-making and the creation of value from data.
Over 5 weeks tutors will interact online with participants, using discussions and tutorials alongside self-paced learning to teach how to:
- Visually explore data
- Criticise data visualisations
- Design visualisations
- Implement data visualisations
The course covers the fundamentals of:
- Human perception and data visualisation
- Exploratory data analysis
- The importance of interaction in exploration
- Techniques for data visualisation (networks, temporal data, geographic data, etc..)
- Storytelling and communication
- Tools for data visualisation
Evaluation
No coding is required and you are encouraged to work with your own data and projects. You can find more information and register interest via the website: https://datavis-online.github.io
Please don’t hesitate to contact the course organisers with any questions datavisonline@gmail.com
