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Data Visualization: Storytelling and Sensemaking

Dates: 9/27 (9am-4pm) || 9/28 (9am-4pm) || 9/29 (9am-4pm)
Location: Virtual

Agenda and course description

Learn to transform data into powerful sensemaking and storytelling.

You’ve got the data. Now, how do you interpret and share it to make an impact? This course will show you how to create strong visualizations using data to increase comprehension, retention, and action. Learn design concepts and techniques to make your presentations more persuasive. See how design best practices are a path to communicating critical information with data. Understand the power of sensemaking to structure data for clarity and impact to create effective visualizations.

This three-day experience begins with defining information design, such as data visualization and infographics. You’ll see examples of what not to do with a data set and discuss how to choose appropriate visuals. You’ll discover new opportunities to communicate with data. You’ll learn how to smartly implement levels of complexity into information design. You’ll see how data converted into storytelling can make your data resonate with an audience. Finally, you’ll learn how to incorporate these techniques with hands-on exercises and interactive group design sessions.  

Do you want to be able to identify opportunities to use data? To see how you can use it to make a business case, or persuade an audience, or create actionable messaging? Then Data Visualization: Storytelling & Sensemaking is the course for you.

At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Understand the power of sensemaking and storytelling via data
  • Recognize opportunities to communicate with meaningful data
  • Experiment with visualization techniques
  • Structure data for clarity and impact
  • How to hone a message
  • Develop a data point of view
  • Transform data presentations into powerful persuasive tools
  • Define and identify information design and data visualization
  • Apply design elements and principles to data
  • Incorporate data strategies into everyday work


For JHU benefits eligible faculty and staff members only:
If you are a full-time, benefits-eligible faculty or staff member who has been employed by JHU for at least 120 days, and continue in a full-time position while enrolled in courses, you are eligible to receive tuition remission.

This benefit covers only noncredit courses offered through a Continuing Education Unit of one of JHU’s academic divisions, the Berman Institute, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Sheridan Libraries, or Executive Programs offered through the Carey Business School. This plan is available to full-time faculty, staff, and bargaining unit members only. Retirees are not eligible for this benefit. You receive 100% remission if your department certifies the course benefits your professional development and your department is willing to pay if you do not attend the course or if you cancel with less than one week’s notice. The one-week cancellation notice is waived only for emergencies with written documentation.

There is an annual limit of 2 classes per calendar year for noncredit professional development courses taken at JHU (effective 2023).

For more information on this policy, please refer to the HR website.

Details

09/27/2023 09:00 AM - 09/29/2023 04:00 PM
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Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School