Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
STAT-0052
Organization's ID:
#622
Organization:
Location:
Online
Length:
4 weeks (60 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Data Visualization
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to teach students about the interactive exploration of data, and how it is achieved using state-of-the-art data visualization software. Students learn to explore a range of different data types and structures and about various interactive techniques for manipulating and examining data to produce effective visualizations. The learning process is hands-on as students are guided through an analysis of quantitative business data to discern meaningful patterns, trends, relationships, and exceptions that reveal business performance, potential problems and opportunities.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply principles of perception to data visualization.
  • Visualize hierarchical data with treemap.
  • Use software tools to interactively visualize relationships among variables.
  • Analyze distributions of data visually.
  • Use a range of displays to explore data.
  • Use parallel coordinate plots, scatterplots, and trellising to analyze multivariate data.

General Topics:

  • Introduction to data visualization, software introduction, and data preparation
  • Using interactive tools for exploring data
  • Visualizing time series, hierarchical data, and multivariate data
  • Map charts, network plots, and more
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Discussion
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises
  • Textbook readings

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Other
  • Capstone case study project, graded practical exercises, and discussion forums

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials