Data Visualisation Workshop

Understand the power and purpose

- Explore the history, recent developments and future outlook

- Drive decision making with data visualisations

- Know your why, and what your data needs to achieve

Five pillars of an organisation’s data science and analytics maturity

- Make sense of your organisation’s analytics capacity to create compelling data vis

- Plot a roadmap from business strategy to data visualisation

- Dive into what makes successful organisations do data right

Decipher key components

- Understand graph theory and colour theory 

- Learn how shapes and objects are perceived, and create meaning

- Explore use cases of data visualisation

Connect the dots

- Assess various use cases and meaning of data vis solutions

- Input data effectively and understand tool selection

- Design fundamentals for data visualisation

Tell compelling stories

- Effectively communicate with data

- Understand the power of visual storytelling

- Make the right graphical choices

Data design fundamentals and visualisation literacy

- Formats for data visualisation and presentation

- Pick the right visual language to influence your audience

- Simplify data to tell your story more effectively

Software, tools and dashboards

- Explore information presentation tools and software options

- Compare different types of visualisation, tools, and best practice

- Overview of Tableau Desktop, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, and more

Dashboards design and information hierarchy

- Select the right option and organise your data and dashboards

- Work with complex charts and data visualisations

- Create a clear and accessible model

Introduction to analytics

- Explore key tips and tricks

- Complete simple Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) exercise

- Utilise MS Excel to interpret and summarise EDA results

Data visualisation in PowerPoint

- Understand capabilities, limitations and how add-ins can help 

- Simple data analysis and visualisation practical exercise

- Organise and plan your content

Data visualisation in PowerBI

- Explore tool capabilities, limitations and customisation

- Work through simple data analysis and visualisation

- Organise and plan your content

Business intelligence and storytelling

- Revisit main themes, tools, techniques and strategies

- Build a practical action plan to apply learnings

- Group discussion, final reflections and insights