MGMT 6135 - Data Visualization and Communication

Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

This course emphasizes communicating with data, primarily through the use of data visualizations. Data visualization is a medium through which data analytics can be used to support strategic and executive decision-making. Topics of the course include principles of visualization design, choices of visualizations, creating business dashboards, and communicating visualizations through various media. Students will design visualizations suitable for publication in professional reports, online media, and formal presentations. Various types of visualizations will be covered including bar/column charts (with clustered variations); line, box, and stem charts; scatter plots; slope graphs; bubble charts; and heat maps.