In our modern data driven society, information extraction using appropriate data visualization techniques plays a vital role in business. This course is designed to introduce data visualization techniques through hands-on exercises. Students will be introduced to a variety of visualization techniques including charts, interactive dashboards, and stories. These are then used to create meaningful displays of quantitative and qualitative data, to facilitate managerial decision-making. To serve that purpose, this course offers students a formal foundation in data visualization in addition to hands-on experience using Excel spreadsheets, Tableau software package, and Python programming.
Data Visualization is lectured by Dr. Jia Uddin. Dr. Uddin received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Ulsan, and his M.Sc. in Telecommunication from Blekinge Institute of Technology. Dr. Uddin has over 10 years tertiary teaching experience in Bangladesh, UK, Indonesia, and Korea. He researches industrial fault diagnosis and has received the Best Research Faculty Award from Brac University and an Erasmus European Union Grant from Staffordshire University.