CSC 7025 Data Analytics and Visualization
This course aims to help graduate students make sense of data and improve their data-based digital storytelling skills for effective communication. To accomplish those goals, the course focuses on two major topics, data analytics and data visualization. It starts with the conceptualization of empirical research and concludes with visual display of research findings to target audiences. It provides students with a deep conceptual understanding of the research process as well as practical skills in analytics and visualization necessary to succeed as a researcher in commercial firms and non-profit research organizations. This course focuses on building creative and technical skills to transform data into visual reports for the purpose of engendering a shared understanding. Students will learn to use software to ingest, organize, and visualize data, with an emphasis on applying design principles to produce clear, elegant graphs and dashboards that capture the essence of an insight, message, or recommendation distilled from the data.