GRDP 2069 - Information Visualization

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 2 Lab 1
Course Description: This course focuses on the process of transforming statistical data and numerical information into compelling narratives. Topics include visual storytelling techniques such as sequence, relationship, context, and audience. Traditional formats such as bar charts and line graphs as well as non-traditional formats such as graph-based visuals, comparisons, three-dimensional visuals, and motion graphics will be created and discussed. The course emphasizes a wide range of methodologies for visualizing data to ensure clarity, honesty, and editorial voice.
Prerequisite(s): GRDP 2061  
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Concurrently enrolled in GRDP 2061  and GRDP 2067  

Major Content

1. Early statistics and visualizations
2. Simple statistical calculations
3. The importance of context
4. Choosing an effective visual
5. Human visual perception
6. Applying the formal elements and principles of design.
7. Building effective visualizations
8. Presenting effective visualizations
9. Using Microsoft Excel to create and modify visualizations.

1. perform simple statistical calculations.
2. analyze and find meaningful stories within statistical information and data.
3. evaluate and determine the best visual representation of a given data/story relationship.
4. apply principles of human visual perception to more effectively communicate visualizations.
5. prepare and plan visualizations using the formal elements and principals of design.
6. use a variety of techniques and software to create meaningful visualizations.
7. tell the story behind the numbers through practiced presentation techniques.
8. discern between visualizations that are meaningful and honest and those that are specious and misleading

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