Introduction to Data Visualization
Introduction to Data Visualization
A course by Victor Pascual, Data Visualization Specialist
About the video: Introduction to Data Visualization
Overview
“We will start the course defining what the visualization is, and we will briefly comment on the difference between data and information. We will explain why visualization is important and we will see the differences between static and dynamic visualizations.”
In this video lesson Victor Pascual addresses the topic: Introduction to Data Visualization, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Data Visualization. Create interactive visualizations and learn to represent data from your favorite series.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello again. Let's continue with the new lesson. Today. we will delve into defining what data visualization entails and establish some theoretical groundwork for it. We'll explore why information visualization is crucial in our current environment where we are constantly bombarded by vast amounts of complex data. What is this? These are data I extracted. likely the stock price of Apple from years ago. What do we have? A table of numbers that. if we analyze. could reveal trends. look at them. they tell us very little. It's quite difficult to understand what is hidden behind these To explain ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Data Visualization
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Design, Marketing & Business -
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Google Sheets, Tableau Public -
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Infographics, Information Design, Interactive Design, Multimedia
Victor Pascual
A course by Victor Pascual
Víctor Pascual is a self-confessed lover of scientific data visualization, who has a doctorate in computer science and digital communication. He dedicated his doctoral thesis to researching new methods for representing web data and has been a data scientist and data visualization specialist since 2009.
After three years as part of the Bestiario team, Víctor began his new adventure as a data analysis and visualization consultant for companies including SIRIS Academic and Mobile Media Content, where he leads a diverse range of R&D projects.
Víctor is also committed to training in information visualization, which led him to codirect Spain's first postgraduate course on the subject (IDEC) as well as participate in a number of different conferences and workshops. He currently collaborates with different master's and postgraduate degree programs.
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