Credits:
3
Hours:
30
Area:
Big Data Story Telling
Teachers:
Academic Year:
2024-2025
Description:
The Data Visualization and Visual Analytics course provides a comprehensive introduction to produce effective and efficient visualization and storytelling through data visualization. During the course, the students will explore the basics of visual encoding, data visualization mapping through encoding with visual variables, and visual analytics techniques.
Notions:
- Introduction to Data Visualization, basic concepts of visual perception, Visual Variables
- Use cases of good and bad practices of visualizations.
- Introduction to the library Altair
- Visual Variables and Scales in Altair
- Visualization of Geographical Data with Folium
- Color models and color scales
- Data Publishing: Principles of Web Application Design, A sample of a web application layout
Competences:
- How to encode data and models in an efficient and effective visualization, limiting the impact of cognitive biases.
- How to design and encode a visual representation through modern data visualization libraries