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Data Visualization

Data Management and Analytics

Course Overview

The gap between analysis and influence is usually a chart. Data that took weeks to assemble routinely dies in a cluttered slide nobody understands. This course teaches visualisation as a craft: choosing the right chart for the message, stripping away decoration that hides the point, using colour and annotation deliberately, and building the narrative arc that turns numbers into decisions. Tool-agnostic principles, practised hands-on with the tools delegates already use.

What You Will Achieve

  • Choose chart types by the comparison being made, not by habit
  • Strip charts to their message: declutter, emphasise, annotate
  • Use colour deliberately for meaning rather than decoration
  • Design dashboards that guide attention instead of scattering it
  • Build a data narrative that moves an audience to a decision

Who Should Attend

Analysts, finance and reporting professionals, researchers, marketers and managers who present data and want it to land — whatever tool they use.

Course Outline

  1. 01Why most charts fail: perception before software
  2. 02Chart choice: matching form to comparison
  3. 03Declutter lab: rebuilding cluttered real-world charts
  4. 04Colour, emphasis and annotation as tools of meaning
  5. 05Tables, when they beat charts, and how to design them
  6. 06Dashboard design: hierarchy, flow and restraint
  7. 07Data storytelling: structure, tension, resolution
  8. 08Capstone: redesign and present your own report

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