DSE 5004 - Visual Data Exploration

Credits: 4

Formerly: DSA5400
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of exploratory data analyses and data visualization, allowing students to turn data into insights, pictures, and stories.. The following topics will be covered:

Transforming data into information and subsequent actionable insights and knowledge
Exploring the basics of graphic design and making a “good” graph
Undertaking data due diligence
Descriptive and inferential data analytical framework
Examples and practice of exploratory data analysis and using data for segmentation and classification
Exploring why some data visualizations present information effectively and others do not,
Considering visualization as a component of the data analytics systems

The course will address data exploration utilizing classical statistical techniques, as well as topics of statistical inference, statistical significance, and outcome validity and reliability. Additionally, this course will introduce students to the foundations of constructing plots with the grammar of graphics and utilizing packages such as ggplot2 and Shiny