Data Visualization and Storytelling

Overview

Delivery method

Classroom

Virtual Classroom

Duration

12 hours

Audience

Employees

Other Government Department Employee

This course is available to other government department employees on a cost-recovery basis.

For more information, please contact Learning-Apprentissage@international.gc.ca

In this course, participants will learn how to communicate useful, evidence-based messages and ideas.

The course will focus on how to use dashboards, reports and and other visual tools to convey descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive insights to decision-makers.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• identify the key elements of a data story
• explain the importance of stories in the communication of data and information
• plan a data story based on the target audience
• identify best practices when building visualizations for storytelling