Data Visualization

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Course Learning Objectives:

● To understand why Data visualization helps to tell stories by curating data into a form easier to
understand, highlighting the trends and outliers.

● To learn how a good visualization tells a story, removing the noise from data and highlighting the
useful information.

● To learn how it can give data meaning to a broader audience.

● To learn how to use Visualization gives us a way to parse and understand data so that we can add it to
our stories, we can incorporate it into our thinking,” Fields says.

● To define the structure and components of a Visualization.

● To learn how to create Dashboard.

● To learn how to Refine Data in Watson Analytics

● To learn how to build Cards in exploration.

Course Content
UNIT-I (13 HOURS)

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION

What is Data Visualization? How does Data Visualization Work?, Static vs. Interactive Data Visualization,
Time Series Data Visualization, Time Series Data Visualization Examples, How to visualize Data :
Approach

UNIT-II (7 HOURS)

DASHBOARD OVERVIEW

Cognos Analytics dashboards, Uploading data creating a dashboard changing the template on a tabbed dashboard,
Creating a visualization in a dashboard, Exporting a dashboard to PDF. Filtering data in one visualization,
Highlighting data points across visualizations, Adding a filter widget, Keeping or excluding data points in
visualization, Adding a filter widget, Disconnecting visualizations and filter widgets, Clearing filters.
UNIT-III (8 HOURS)

INTRODUCTION TO EXPLORATION PATTERN

Overview of Exploration, Upload Data, Generate cards, Create Visualization, Create Compare Visualization,
Creating column calculations for all visualizations, Sorting in numerical order, Sorting in alphabetical order, Stories:
IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS:DASHBOARDS AND STORIES

UNIT-IV (12 HOURS)

INTRODUCTION TO IBM WATSON STUDIO

Introduction to IBM Cloud, Watson Studio, Understand the Raw data, Get and Prepare Data In a project,
Refine Data, Understand Data Refinery Tool. Understand Data Refinery Visualization, Create Visualization
with Jupyter Notebook; Insert the data as a DataFrame, Analyze the result.

Text Books

T1. BETTER DATA VISUALIZATIONS by Jonathan Schwabish

T2. INFORMATION DASHBOARD DESIGN: DISPLAYING DATA FOR AT-A-GLANCE
MONITORING
T3. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Edition

Reference Books:

R1. BEAUTIFUL VISUALIZATION, LOOKING AT DATA THROUGH THE EYES OF EXPERTS by

JULIE STEELE, NOAH ILIINSKY
R2. The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication

Course Learning Outcomes (CLO)

CLO Description Bloom’s Taxonomy Level

CLO1 Develop and understand the exploratory data analysis using 1,1,2,3
visualization.
Remembering,

Understanding,

Apply
 CLO2 Develop the ability to Craft visual presentations of data for 3,4,5
effective communication.
Applying,

Analyzing,

Evaluating

CLO3 Use knowledge of perception and cognition to evaluate 3,4,5

visualization design alternatives.
Applying,

Analyzing,

Evaluating
Design and evaluate color palettes for visualization based
CLO4 on principles of perception. Understand the visualization 3,4,5
pipeline with its relationship to other data analysis
pipelines Applying,

Analyzing,

Evaluating

Mapping of CLOs with PLOs & PSOs

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