Data Science: Visualization offered by Harvard University
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Data Science: Visualization at Harvard University Overview
Data Science: Visualization
at Harvard University
Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.
Duration | 8 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Data Science: Visualization at Harvard University Highlights
Data Science: Visualization
at Harvard University
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Data Science: Visualization at Harvard University Course details
Data Science: Visualization
at Harvard University
Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
- Data visualization principles
- How to communicate data-driven findings
- How to use ggplot2 to create custom plots
- The weaknesses of several widely-used plots and why you should avoid them
More about this course
- As part of our Professional Certificate Program in Data Science, this course covers the basics of data visualization and exploratory data analysis
- We will use three motivating examples and ggplot2, a data visualization package for the statistical programming language R
- The course will start with simple datasets and then graduate to case studies about world health, economics, and infectious disease trends in the United States
- The course will also be looking at how mistakes, biases, systematic errors, and other unexpected problems often lead to data that should be handled with care
- The fact that it can be difficult or impossible to notice a mistake within a dataset makes data visualization particularly important
- The growing availability of informative datasets and software tools has led to increased reliance on data visualizations across many areas
- Data visualization provides a powerful way to communicate data-driven findings, motivate analyses, and detect flaws
- This course will give the skills that are need to leverage data to reveal valuable insights and advance career
Data Science: Visualization at Harvard University Curriculum
Data Science: Visualization
at Harvard University
Data Science, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, R
Data Science: Visualization at Harvard University Faculty details
Data Science: Visualization
at Harvard University
Rafael Irizarry
Designation : Professor of Biostatistics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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