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Course Materials for Data Visualization for Communication and Decision Making

This repo contains the syllabus and supplimental files for LIS 707 Data Visualization for Communication and Decision Making at University of Wisconsin - Madison, created by Becky Yoose.

Brief descriptions of the files in this repo -

  • Syllabus.md
    • Contains course goals, textbook and technology information, assignment descriptions, and other syllabus sundries
  • units folder
    • Contains files of individual course weeks listing week learning goals, readings, resources, and examples. The week topic list:
      • Week 1 - Welcome! Introduction to Data Visualization
      • Week 2: Data Visualization and Humans
      • Week 3: Preparing for Data Visualization -- Who, What, How, Why
      • Week 4: Overview of Visualization Types
      • Week 5: Visualization UX, Accessibility, and Design
      • Week 6: Your First Visualizations in Excel
      • Week 7: Choosing Software for Visualizations
      • Week 8: Communicating about Change: Timelines and Trends
      • Week 9: Interactive Visualizations
      • Week 10: Communicating about Spatial and Relationship Data
      • Week 11: Dashboards: What They Are and How They Are Used
      • Week 12: Combining Open Data and Other Data Sources in Data Visualizations
      • Week 13: Where Do We Go From Here -syllabi folder
      • Contains the PDFs of present and past versions of the syllabus, including reading lists

Caveats

  • This syllabus is and will be forever in beta. Each time the course is taught the readings, assignments, etc. are subject to change to reflect current examples and issues around data visualization.
  • There will be some data files in the assignments folder that cannot be included in this repo due to licensing restrictions. I will do my best in giving folks information as to how to get access to the files when this is the case.
  • Watch out for any grammatical errors or word omissions.

TODO

  • Upload exercises + assignments
  • Upload discussion questions
  • Clean up text and formatting in unit files

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Bronwen Masemann for the foundation of the syllabus.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.