Graphic & Brand Design
Data Visualisation Design
Make charts people actually understand
12 lessons4 modules10h 5m durationbeginner level
About this course
Designers are increasingly handed spreadsheets and asked to make them make sense. This course teaches the craft behind professional data visualisation: how human perception ranks visual encodings, how to match a chart to the question, how to design accessible colour, and how to build dashboards and narrative data stories. You work in approachable tools such as Datawrapper, Flourish, and Tableau Public, and finish able to take a messy dataset all the way to a clear, on-brand, defensible visual.
Curriculum
Module 1: How People Read a Chart
- Why Some Charts Just Work and Others Don'tPreview
- The Cleveland-McGill Accuracy Hierarchy🔒
- Preattentive Attributes and Gestalt Grouping🔒
Module 2: Choosing the Right Chart
- Match the Chart to the Question🔒
- Bars, Lines, Scatter, and When to Use Each🔒
- Charts That Mislead and How to Avoid Them🔒
Module 3: Colour, Type, and Clutter
- Colour Systems for Data🔒
- Accessible and Colour-Blind-Safe Palettes🔒
- Typography, Labels, and the Data-Ink Ratio🔒
Module 4: Dashboards and Data Stories
- Building Your First Charts in Datawrapper and Flourish🔒
- Dashboard Layout and Information Hierarchy🔒
- Telling a Story with Data🔒
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