Data visualization is simply the visual representation of data utilized to tell a story, provide context and draw attention to critical insights. In this hands-on course, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to be effective at designing data outputs, communicating data insights, and curating your findings to serve business needs. By the end of the course, you’ll acquire technical skills comparable to those of high-business-value data professionals and be prepared to make an organizational impact from the data analyses you perform.
We recommend that you have an existing professional data analyst skillset and/or have completed at least one of the following courses as a prerequisite: Data Analysis with Excel, Data Analysis and Visualization in Power BI, or Data Visualization with Tableau (Coursera Specialization).
Learning Outcomes
- Discuss data mining, discovery, patterns in data
- Identify potential bias in collected data, analysis process or organizational context
- Formulate analysis based on understanding business value from your data
- Distinguish between good, bad and excellent presentations
Skills You'll Gain
- Visualization tools (Excel, Tableau or Power BI) for acquiring data
- Data storytelling frameworks and techniques
- The business viewpoint of data analysis
- Data insights derived from the amount and type of data