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Data Visualization For Storytellers

The 'Data Visualization For Storytellers' is an online certificate course focused on teaching skills for analyzing and communicating data effectively through visual means. Participants will learn to clean, analyze, and visualize data using tools like Tableau Public, and will collaborate with peers to enhance their storytelling abilities. The course includes hands-on activities, weekly live sessions, and offers a certificate upon completion.

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Data Visualization For Storytellers

The 'Data Visualization For Storytellers' is an online certificate course focused on teaching skills for analyzing and communicating data effectively through visual means. Participants will learn to clean, analyze, and visualize data using tools like Tableau Public, and will collaborate with peers to enhance their storytelling abilities. The course includes hands-on activities, weekly live sessions, and offers a certificate upon completion.

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Data Visualization For Storytellers

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Data Visualization For Storytellers

Data Visualization For Storytellers

Data visualization skills are essential to analyzing and communicating large amounts of information for
understanding and decision making. A good visualization will tell a story by highlighting the important
trends and outliers working to combine analysis with great storytelling.

This online certificate-earning course is a hands-on, skills-based course that will take you step-by-step
through the process of cleaning, analyzing and processing data. You will work with curated public data
sets to build a portfolio of charts, graphs and maps using tools such as Tableau Public, Datawrapper and
OpenRefine among many more. Learn how to create effective graphs, charts and maps through practical
lessons and personal feedback from your instructor. Evaluating the stories you tell with data and
improving each iteration with support from your cohort of diverse professionals. You’ll work to apply
skills and practice techniques as you deepen your knowledge in data visualization.

Feel like this course is too basic? Do you have experience in data visualizations and want to take your
skills to the next level? Advanced Data Analytics & Visualization may be your course

Course Outcomes

Understand how to clean, analyze and process big data.

Use Tableau Public and other open source data visualization tools to create a portfolio of charts, graphs
and maps using public data sets.

Learn how to choose the best visual element for visualizing data sets.

Collaborate with your cohort to evaluate data stories using best practices.

Earn a certificate (PDF) upon completion of the course requirements.

Receive a LinkedIn badge to add to your profile to signify accomplishment of the course.

A basic understanding of spreadsheets is suggested. This Spreadsheet tutorial is a good primer.

Meet Your Instructors & Facilitators

Instructors subject to change.


PETER ALDHOUS

Peter Aldhous is a science and data reporter based in San Francisco. He also teaches investigative
reporting and data visualization in the Science Communication Program at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. Peter got his start in journalism in 1989 as a reporter for Nature in London, fresh from a PhD
in animal behavior. Later he worked as European correspondent for Science, news editor for New
Scientist and chief news and features editor with Nature, before moving to California in 2005 to become
New Scientist‘s San Francisco bureau chief. From 2015 to 2022 he worked on the science desk at
BuzzFeed News. Peter’s maps of U.S. government surveillance flights were named data visualization of
the year in the Global Editors Network’s 2016 Data Journalism Awards; that project also won gold for
data journalism and the overall Most Beautiful prize in the 2016 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.
A follow-up project, which used machine learning to identify further covert spy planes, won the JSK
Fellowships award for innovation in GEN’s 2018 Data Journalism Awards. He was a finalist in the Online
category of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2019 Communication
Awards for his data-driven coverage of wildfires.

Syllabus & Course Format

Course Format

This online course includes hands-on, interactive learning activities designed to build your skills as you
progress through each week. Lessons include videos, audio files, tutorials, case studies, discussions and
assignments.

We understand that busy professionals often need more time in our courses, so to better support you,
we've included up to 3 months of free access to the course materials with your registration.

Weekly Live Sessions

Each week your cohort will interact with the instructor during scheduled live-sessions. These Zoom
sessions are in real-time to give you access to expert instruction, personalized support, and the network
of professionals we are known for at Berkeley Advanced Media Institute.

Weekly live sessions for the course are held on Wednesdays, 9:00am - 10:00am PST. The live sessions
are recorded for future viewing.

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