Course duration

6 weeks

Excluding orientation

Language

English

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Effort

4–6 hours per week

Self-paced learning online

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Course overview

7.76 billion

The estimated total value of the data visualisation market by 2023.

Statista (2022).

2.5 quintillion

The bytes of data created every day in 2022.

Earth Web (Nov, 2022).

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

Data is everywhere, but understanding its insights is not always easy. Being able to communicate business insights clearly involves tools and techniques such as visualisation and storytelling. These are used to place the business audience at the centre of consideration.

The Data Visualisation and Storytelling Using Tableau online short course from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Advanced Computing for Executives (ACE) teaches you to communicate business insights using storytelling. Over six weeks, you’ll explore data visualisation best practices and storytelling frameworks that will help you transform your data into easy-to-understand insights. Using data manipulation techniques, you’ll learn to effectively convey insights that help your organisation make more informed decisions. You’ll walk away from the course with the skills and confidence to transform data into actionable insights, as well as a digital certificate of professional achievement.

Is this course for you?

If you’re a functional analyst, data analyst, manager or if you use data in your day-to-day work to communicate results and inform decisions, this course is for you. Anyone looking to improve their data visualisation and presentation skills will benefit from the tools and frameworks presented. Those who want to gain in-demand workplace-ready skills will find value in the practical aspect of this course.

Course overview

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

What will set you apart

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

An understanding of the importance of visual storytelling in business, and the ability to use data-driven visualisations to communicate business insights.

Knowledge of various visualisation types and of the suitability of each, based on data type and intention.

The ability to create a meaningful data story for your business use case.

A narrative framework to structure a business story which facilitates planning and business decisions.

Unlimited access to 2U’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Course curriculum

Learn to convey insights with visualised data as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module

Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1

Visual storytelling in business

Module 2

Data as the foundation of visual storytelling

Module 3

Connecting data to visualisations

Module 4

Essential principles of visual design

Module 5

Extracting insights using dashboards

Module 6

Narrative and presentation

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Course Convenor

The design of this online short course is guided by NUS faculty, as well as industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you throughout the course. View the prospectus to see all the industry thought leaders featured on this course.

Samantha Sow Jin Sze

Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore (NUS)

About the certificate

Develop your ability to communicate data visually and earn an official certificate of professional achievement from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Advanced Computing for Executives (ACE).

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.

NUS Data Visualisation and Storytelling Using Tableau online short course certificate

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