Storytelling with Data

The collection, analysis and insights from data are important in running every aspect of the enterprise. With vast amounts of data created at an ever-increasing speed, it becomes even more critical to create a common visual medium to understand and interpret the data and communicate insights. The ability to present data visually for any type of audience using a mix of numbers, images and graphs is a critical skill for today's business leaders. In this course, we explore the fundamentals of data visualization, different principles and best practices of communicating data and creating visual analytics with a wide variety of tools such as Tableau and Power BI. By completing this course students will be able to pick the appropriate visual representation for the data using a variety of tools from the market place. The course starts with the fundamentals of visualizations using a variety of tools and subsequently focuses on advanced features to plot time series, maps, creating dashboards and eventually publishing visual stories.