This course teaches practical skills for reading, creating, and critiquing data visualisations. Materials are organized as follows:
Course Introduction - Agenda, format and overview of the day
Exercise - Review public visuals - Group exercise analysing effective real-world visualisations
Discussion - Glossary of Visual Types - Reference guide to common chart types with examples
Discussion - Choose the best chart for a dataset - Principles for selecting appropriate visualisation types
Discussion - Ten golden rules for effective visualisations - Core principles with examples
Exercise - Build a visual - Hands-on group exercise creating visualisations
Chart Types Quiz - Interactive quiz using real-world examples
Useful resources after the course - Books, videos and data journalism sources
Visual Grammar - Understanding visual attributes and grammar of graphics