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Course Areas:
Information Systems Depth Elective
Information Systems Major: Business Analytics Track
Technology for Business Second Major: Business Analytics Track
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
Course Competencies:
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1. | Explaining the concepts and principles of Visual Analytics. |
2. | Describing the differences between Visual Analytics, Data Visualisation, Statistical Graphs, and Infographics. |
3. | Explaining the basic concept of visual variables and applying these concepts and best practice in designing data-driven static graphs. |
4. | Explaining interactive techniques and best practice, and applying these techniques in designing interactive data visualisation. |
5. | Understanding the data characteristics of numerical data and building data visualisation by using appropriate univariate graphical methods. |
6. | Understanding the characteristics of multivariate data and building data visualisation by using appropriate multivariate visualisation methods. |
7. | Understanding the characteristics of time-series data and building data visualisation by using appropriate time-series visualisation methods. |
8. | Understanding the characteristics of geographical data and building data visualisation by using appropriate geo-visualisation methods. |
9. | Understanding the characteristics of network data and building data visualisation by using appropriate network graph visualisation methods. |
10. | Explain the concepts and principles of Information Dashboard. |
11. | Building business dashboard by using Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software. |
12. | Designing visual analytics application programmatically by using free and open source software and packages. |
Course Assessment:
Assessment Categories | Weightage (%) |
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Class Participation | 10 |
Individual Assignments | 40 |
Class Tests | 10 |
Visual Analytics Project | 40 |
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