This course will teach you how to make more effective visualizations of data. Not only will you gain deeper insight into the data, but you will also learn how to better communicate that insight to others. You will learn new ways to display data, applying some fundamental principles of design and human cognition to choose the most effective way to display different kinds of data. This course not only teaches you how to use popular applications like Tableau to connect to data warehouses to extract and visualize relevant data, but also teaches you how Tableau works so you can use the same techniques to make effective data visualizations on your own with any visualization system.
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Syllabus
- Course Orientation
- You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
- Week 1: The Computer and the Human
- In this week's module, you will learn what data visualization is, how it's used, and how computers display information. You'll also explore different types of visualization and how humans perceive information.
- Week 2: Visualization of Numerical Data
- In this week's module, you will start to think about how to visualize data effectively. This will include assigning data to appropriate chart elements, using glyphs, parallel coordinates, and streamgraphs, as well as implementing principles of design and color to make your visualizations more engaging and effective.
- Week 3: Visualization of Non-Numerical Data
- In this week's module, you will learn how to visualize graphs that depict relationships between data items. You'll also plot data using coordinates that are not specifically provided by the data set.
- Week 4: The Visualization Dashboard
- In this week's module, you will start to put together everything you've learned by designing your own visualization system for large datasets and dashboards. You'll create and interpret the visualization you created from your data set, and you'll also apply techniques from user-interface design to create an effective visualization system.
Taught by
John Hart
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3.2 rating, based on 21 Class Central reviews
4.5 rating at Coursera based on 1374 ratings
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Data Visualization is the fifth and final course in the data mining specialization offered by John Hopkins University on Coursera. The 4-week course provides a high-level overview of data visualization, covering topics like human visual perception,…
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If you think that to create effective visualizations you need to understand the structure of the eye and the brain, then this is the course for you. In my opinion, it does not focus on what it should.
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Matilde MarcolliIf you're interested in data visualization for science purposes, then don't look here: take the Cousera "Caltech JPL summer school on data analytic" instead, which is aimed at doing science and not at business products. If you're interested in business products, then, oh well... I guess this may be ok for you -
The course was simply a theoretical overwiew of some basic techniques used in data visualization. The only practical experience was given in the two homeworks, which mostly required to rely on previous or self-taught knowledge and experience. Lectures were mostly long and boring dictations of the transparencies, and were of little use for the two practical homeworks. Overall I would say there is very little to learn in the course, and these few things are better learnt elsewhere.
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I thought this class would be boring, but it was a bit of a rest we all needed after the previous programming-buffed courses in the Data Mining specialization. However, I did manage to learn some new stuff and concepts. I would like to recommend to make this class perhaps a bit longer, and to introduce people into d3 coding, since the vast majority of the capstone examples and tasks evolved around creating nice visualizations of the mining tasks.
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This is a very useful course to anyone who wants to learn how to convey information more effectively. A very useful course to Engineers and technical people to learn how to present their valuable data in a way that is well understood by everyday people.
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It was introductory but to do the assignments there was a lot of discovery/reading/research/etc to be done to be able to do it properly
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This course went from accessible to far too technical for someone without programming experience. In order to complete assignments knowledge of programming is needed.
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