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Visualisation: visual representations of data and information

Who is this course for?

Intermediate level

What will I learn?

In this free course you will learn how to interpret, and in some cases create, visual representations of data and information that help us to see things in a different way.

After studying this course, you should be able to:
- understand what is meant by the term 'visualisation'
- interpret and create a range of visual representations of data and information
- recognise a range of visualisation models
- select an appropriate visualisation model to represent a given data set
- recognise when visualisations are presenting information in a misleading way.

Skills tags:

  • data
  • visualisations
  • graphs