In the Information Visualization online course, you’ll explore essential, recommended, and supplementary topics for visualizing information. This self-paced course offers a clear introduction to what information visualization is, its importance, and how to begin. It guides you in starting visualization projects and provides expert insights to support your chosen tasks.

Syllabus

Learning Outcomes

Understand Information Visualization Principles. Explain the fundamental concepts and importance of information visualization in interpreting data and making informed decisions.
Apply Design Techniques in Information Visualization.Utilize design principles and visual storytelling techniques to create clear, effective, and visually engaging information visualizations.
Analyze and Overcome Common Visualization Challenges.Identify common problems in visualizing information and apply advanced methods and solutions to overcome these challenges.
Evaluate and Critically Assess Visualizations. Critically evaluate a variety of visualization examples to discern best practices and areas for improvement in visual representation of information.
Develop Purposeful Visualizations for Impact. Create information visualizations tailored to specific audiences and purposes, emphasizing patterns, trends, and anomalies to effectively communicate complex data.

Content and Schedule

Module 1:
Course Introduction: What is Information Visualization?

Module 2:
Elements of Visual Storytelling

Module 3:
Data Universe

Module 4:
Design Principles for Visualizations

Module 5:
Trends and Future of Information Visualizations

Module 6:
Psychology of Visualizing Information

Module 7:
Purposes of Visualizations: Who Makes Visualizations and Why

Module 8:
Basic Methods of Visualizing Information

Module 9:
Explanatory and Exploratory Visualizations

Module 10:
Visualizations for Society and the Skills to Create Them

For Whom?

If you need to understand and learn to decipher visualizations and what is behind them, then this course is for you. If you want to prepare visualizations of your own, this course will get you started.

The course is designed for those who want a concise overview of what information visualization is about. It focuses on making quantitative data understandable and usable. You may need to understand and learn to decipher visualizations and what is behind them, or you may want to prepare visualizations of your own.