DSIM 604 Applied Data Visualization and Analysis
This course provides an introduction as well as hands-on experience to the field of data visualization. Students learn basic visualization design principles to create meaningful displays of quantitative and qualitative data in order to facilitate managerial decision making process. Students will learn various techniques for visualizing temporal, text-based, geospatial, hierarchical data and large data sets. Topics covered include data selection, data cleaning, data analysis, data presentation techniques. Students will apply analysis and data visualization design principles to the creation of interactive business dashboards and reports. Students will present their work in numerous formats to a variety of audiences. Students will be exposed to various visualization software toolkits.