Introduction to Data Visualization, Importance of Data visualization, Evolution. Basics of Visual Perception - Data Communication - Components of Data Visualization
Visualization Tools: Introduction to Tools – Tableau – Power BI – Excel Data Preparation: Data Cleaning and Preprocessing – Handling missing data and outliers
Design Principles: Principles of Good Design – Choosing The Right Chart Type – Colour Theory and Usage Interactive Visualization: Creating Interactive Dashboards–User Experience Considerations Advanced Visualization Techniques: Geospatial Data Visualization – Advanced Chart Types (Heatmaps, Tree Maps and Network Diagrams)
Elements of Storytelling - Narrative Structure – Types of Narratives – Author Driven Narrative – Reader Driver Narrative - Crafting A Data-Driven Story – Using Data To Support Arguments - Story Types – The Final Deliverable – Effective Storytelling – Building Narrative With Data
Marketing and Sales Data Visualization: Visualizing Customer Data – Sales performance dashboards Financial Data Visualization: Financial Performance Indicators–Risk and portfolio visualization
Reference Book:
Tufte, E. R. (2001). The visual display of quantitative information (2nd ed.). Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. Kirk, A. (2016). Data visualisation: A handbook for data driven design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Healy, K. (2018). Data visualization: A practical introduction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Cairo, A. (2012). The functional art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization. Berkeley, CA: New Riders. Wexler, S., Shaffer, J., & Cotgreave, A. (2017). The big book of dashboards: Visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Text Book:
Knaflic, C. N. (2015). Storytelling with data: A data visualization guide for business professionals. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Few, S. (2013). Information dashboard design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring (2nd ed.). Burlingame, CA: Analytics Press.