UXD 3030 - Data Visualization

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

Course Description
This course will allow students to learn critical skills in data visualization by putting them into practice. Students will learn how to find and clean data, identify the story within the data, create visualizations that resonate with others, and utilize psychological principles underlying human perception to ensure that their data visualization is interpreted appropriately. Data visualizations covered include static and interactive graphs, dashboards, and infographics. In addition to learning to create and evaluate data visualizations, students will learn to effectively present data visualizations to diverse audiences. Students will work with a variety of industry standard tools to create data visualizations. (prereq: COM 2001 and junior standing) (quarter system prereq: GS 1002 or GS 1020H or GS 1002E)

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Explain the principles of human perception that apply to data visualization
Locate and clean data for data visualizations
Identify the story within the data
Create visualizations that explain the data to others
Effectively present data visualizations to stakeholders
Evaluate the efficacy of a data visualization

Prerequisites by Topic

Basic understanding of human psychology
Basic understanding of UX visual design
Basic college numeracy

Course Topics

Introduction to data visualization
User needs
Human perception
Dealing with data
Exploring data
Abstraction and encoding
Scale
Explaining data
Dashboards
Infographics
Presenting data visualization
Interaction in data visualizations
High dimensional data
Evaluation of data visualizations
AI and data visualization

Coordinator
Dr. Katherine Panciera

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