Advanced Data Visualization

Designed for professionals with some experience in data visualisation, this microcredential introduces advanced techniques to visualise varied and complex data sets. Explore the challenges of complex data sets and evaluate visualisation approaches and interactive visualisations for a variety of stakeholders and viewers.

About this microcredential

In this microcredential, participants will develop the ability to visualise data sets using more complex and sophisticated techniques.  Data sets that include time-series, textual and spatio-temporal data are explored, and appropriate visualisation methods are developed, with an emphasis on making the data coherent and legible for particular users. Through practical work, the ways that data visualisations can be made interactive and the implications that interactivity has for visualisation designers are considered.

Successful completion of the microcredential will enable participants to begin applying interactive data visualisation techniques in their work or study, and to develop skills and qualifications on the pathway to become data visualisation designers or visual data analysts.              

Key benefits of this microcredential

• A comprehensive primer on advanced data visualisation – develop techniques to make complex data sets visually clear to your audience.

• Develop your understanding of key techniques and concepts along with hands-on activities and case studies to visualize real data sets and compare approaches.

• Complete as a self-contained course, or as a potential pathway to future postgraduate study.

Who should do this microcredential?

This microcredential is suitable for professionals from a wide range of sectors and backgrounds who have some formal or informal experience or training in data visualisation, equivalent to the learning outcomes of the Data Visualisation Foundations microcredential.

UTS microcredentials are developed for professionals with a capacity to undertake postgraduate tertiary education.