36-642 Telling Impactful Stories with Data Visualization

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is only for students completing the Foundations of Data Science Online Graduate Certificate. This course introduces students to the most common forms of graphical displays and their (mis)uses. Students will learn how to create well-designed graphs and understand them from a statistical perspective, while working with increasingly common, complex data structures (temporal, spatial, and text data). All assignments will be completed in R and/or Python. Throughout the course, communication skills will play an important role.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Fall 2025

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