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Description
Modern society is often referred to as 'the information society' - but how can we make sense of all the information we are bombarded with?
In this course, Visualisation: Visual representations of data and information, you will learn how to interpret, and in some cases create, visual representations of data and information that help us to see things in a different way.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Understand what is meant by the term ‘visualisation’ within the context of data and information
- Interpret and create a range of visual representations of data and information
- Recognise a range of visualisation models such as cartograms, choropleth maps and hyperbolic trees
- Select an appropriate visualisation model to represent a given data set
- Recognise when visualisations are presenting information in a misleading way.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction 00:07:00
- Learning outcomes 00:07:00
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- Before you begin your study 00:10:00
- An introduction to visualisation 00:15:00
- The most common spreadsheet charts 00:15:00
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- Cheating with charts 00:15:00
- Cheating with line charts 00:35:00
- Cheating with bar charts 00:10:00
- Cheating with pie charts 00:15:00
- Hierarchical data 00:10:00
- Radial and hyperbolic trees 00:05:00
- Treemaps 00:25:00
- Taking it further (optional material) 00:05:00
- Exploring time-series data (optional) 00:10:00
- Creating organisational charts (optional) 00:05:00
- Mind-mapping tools (optional) 00:10:00
- Exploring KML further (optional) 00:10:00
- Map overlaying skills (optional) 00:10:00
- Web developer skills (optional) 00:10:00
- Further visualisation skills (optional) 00:10:00
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