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Graphic & Brand Design

Data Visualisation Design

Make charts people actually understand

12 lessons4 modules10h 5m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

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 Chart3 lessons
Module 2: Choosing the Right Chart3 lessons
  • Match the Chart to the Question🔒50m
  • Bars, Lines, Scatter, and When to Use Each🔒50m
  • Charts That Mislead and How to Avoid Them🔒50m
Module 3: Colour, Type, and Clutter3 lessons
  • Colour Systems for Data🔒50m
  • Accessible and Colour-Blind-Safe Palettes🔒50m
  • Typography, Labels, and the Data-Ink Ratio🔒50m
Module 4: Dashboards and Data Stories3 lessons
  • Building Your First Charts in Datawrapper and Flourish🔒55m
  • Dashboard Layout and Information Hierarchy🔒55m
  • Telling a Story with Data🔒50m
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