Data Visualisation

9 week course outlining Data Visualisation and how to implement it within various design principles.

Lesson One: Introduction: What is Data Visualization?

Size and Motion

Lesson Two: Colors and how to use them

1. Categorical Color

2. Sequential Color

3. Diverging Color

4. Highlight Color

5. Alert Color

Lesson Three: Bar Charts

Vertical or Horizontal?

Labeling

Grid Lines

Stacked Bar Charts

Best Practices

Lesson Four: Line Charts

When to show key points in the data

Multiple Line Charts

Small Multiples

Colors for Line Charts

Sparklines

Best Practices

Lesson Five: Pie Charts

Pros and Cons

Donut Charts

Best Practices

Lesson Six: Surface Area

Bubble Charts

Best Practices

Lesson Seven: Matrices

Best Practices

Dashboards

Best Practices

Lesson Eight: Infographics

Illustrations

Lesson Nine Data Types

One Variable Data

Two Variable Data

Time Series

Categorical and Numeric Data