Mastering Data Visualization: Theory and Foundations

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Mastering Data Visualization: Theory and Foundations
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UDEMY
Overview

Learn to design amazing charts for visualization and communication for [data] science, journalism and storytelling

Duration	5 hours
Total fee	₹399
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Mastering Data Visualization: Theory and Foundations
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UDEMY
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Mastering Data Visualization: Theory and Foundations
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Skills you will learn

Statistics Data visualization Data Science

What are the course deliverables?

Learn to design effective data communication
Improve your plots up to a professional level
Learn to choose and design the appropriate plot for your purpose
Learn to create compelling graphs that do not lie
Learn to avoid the traps your data can fall into
Learn to distinguish between good, bad and wrong visualization
Learn the golden rules on Graphical Excellence, Integrity and Sophistication
Learn the most common crimes in plotting to be able to avoid them!

More about this course

Welcome to Mastering Data Visualization! In this course, you're going to learn about the Theory and Foundations of Data Visualization so that you can create amazing charts that are informative, true to the data, and communicatively effective. Have you noticed there are more and more charts generated every day? If you turn on the TV, there's a bar chart telling you the evolution of COVID, if you go on Twitter, boom! a lot of line charts displaying the evolution of the price of gas. In newspapers, lots and lots of infographics telling you about the most recent discovery... The reason for that is that now we have lots of data, and the most natural way to communicate data is in visual form: that is, through Data Visualization. But, have you noticed all of the mistakes in those visualizations? I have to tell you, many of the charts that I see regularly have one problem or another. Maybe their color choices are confusing, they chose the wrong type of chart, or they are displaying data in a distorted way. Actually, that happens because more and more professional roles now require to present data visually, but there's few training on how to do it correctly. This course aims to solve this gap. If there's one thing I can promise you is that, after completing this course, you'll be looking at charts at a completely different way. You will be able to distinguish good and bad visualizations, and, more importantly, you will be able to tell when a graph is lying and how to correct it. If you need to analyze, present or communicate data professionally at some point, this course is a must. Actually, even if you don't need to actually draw plots for a living, this course is hugely useful. After all, we are all consumers of data visualizations, and we need to identify when charts are lying to us. (As an example, my mother attended one of my classes and now she's spotting mistakes in a lot of the media she sees everyday!)I really encourage you to deepen your knowledge on Data Visualization. It's not a difficult topic, and we will start from the basics. You don't need any previous knowledge. I'll teach you everything you need to know along the way and we'll go straight to the point. No rambling. I really hope to see you in class!