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DTC-MBD-516 Data Visualization: Course Overview

This document outlines a data visualization course offered at a technical university. The 30-hour course is taught in Spanish and English for a master's degree in big data technologies. Students will learn visualization principles and tools like Carto and Tableau to analyze and present real-world data. The course covers topics such as exploratory data analysis, geographic visualization, and designing effective visualizations. Students must complete assignments, a final project, and participate in class to pass.

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DTC-MBD-516 Data Visualization: Course Overview

This document outlines a data visualization course offered at a technical university. The 30-hour course is taught in Spanish and English for a master's degree in big data technologies. Students will learn visualization principles and tools like Carto and Tableau to analyze and present real-world data. The course covers topics such as exploratory data analysis, geographic visualization, and designing effective visualizations. Students must complete assignments, a final project, and participate in class to pass.

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ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE

INGENIERÍA

DTC-MBD-516 Data Visualization

SEMESTER: Autumn
CREDITS: 30 hours
LANGUAGE: Spanish/English
DEGREES: Master in Big Data Technologies and Advanced Analytics

Course overview
The main objective of this course is to open the "datamind" of our students from a visual
perspective, focusing on the practical analysis and presentation of real data in a hands-on
fashion. We also want to give a fresh “point of view from the front row” with daily cases
we manage at Carto, one of the top visualization tools in the market. This will all be
bundled with the key principles of data visualization in order to help develop a critical
mindset.

- Exposure to a number of common data domains and corresponding analysis


tasks, including multivariate data, networks, text and cartography.


- Learn how to get faster time-to-insights through different visualization


techniques and tools.


- Apply a structured design process to create impactful and effective visualizations.

- Critically evaluate visualizations and suggest improvements and refinements.

- Develop, design and implement a substantial data visualization solution.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of statistics (descriptive statistics, discrete and continuous probability
distribution models, sampling and basics of statistical inference) is required for the
effective development of visualizations.

Basic knowledge of Programming languages is required, ideally in.

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Course contents
Theory:
1. Introduction to Data Visualization
2. The Visualization Alphabet
3. Exploratory Data Analysis
4. Advanced Exploratory Data Analysis
5. Grammar of Graphics
6. Perception & Cognition
7. Crash course on aesthetics
8. Geographic visualization
9. Advanced geographic visualization
10. Graph Taxonomies
11. Interactivity
12. Powerful visualizations with Tableau I
13. Powerful visualizations with Tableau II
14. Future of data visualizations
15. Final project presentations

Textbook
While we will not follow a textbook, we find the following books quite remarkable in their
central topics (information visualization, ).

- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Edward Tufte

- Now You See it, Stephen Few

- Visual Thinking for Design. Colin Ware

- Information Visualization. Colin Ware

- Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics.


Nathan Yau.

- Visualization Analysis and Design. Tamara Munzner

- The Elements of Graphing Data. William Cleveland

- Visualizing Data. William Cleveland


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- Exploratory Data Analysis. John W. Tukey

- Envisioning Information. Edward Tufte

Grading
The following conditions must be accomplished to pass the course:
● A minimum overall grade of at least 5 over 10.

The overall grade is obtained as follows:


● Class participation, 25%
● Assignments (both individual and in groups), 35%
● Final project, 40%

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