Information Visualization
How This Course Will Transform Your Career
In This Course, You'll
Get excited when you discover how to turn complex information into actionable visuals that drive people's decision-making and accelerate business results. Did you know that visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text? That's why you can inform and persuade so quickly and effortlessly with information visualizations! With large amounts of information at the center of every company, your ability to visualize information is a highly sought-after skill and will help you excel in any job. You already visualize information every day, like highlighting important points in a presentation or sketching a diagram to explain an idea, so it's easier than you think to master Information Visualization, no matter your background.
Make yourself invaluable when you enlighten and motivate people with your visualization skills. Your new skills will empower you to transform the vast sea of information in journalism, marketing, research, User Experience, and User Interface design into clear, actionable insights. With easy-to-follow frameworks, you'll create visuals for apps and websites with user interfaces so easy to navigate that people will love them. More love, better business outcomes, and the kind of salary that reflects your value. Remember those meetings overwhelmed by endless rows of data? It won't happen on your shift, as you'll transform complex information into impactful visuals that make your ideas stand out instantly.
Gain confidence and credibility as you learn from the best. You'll get step-by-step guidance to easily display any information type. You'll get downloadable templates to carry out user observations and conduct user interviews with empathy. This Information Visualization course will give you the practical, in-demand design skills you need to get your message across and stand out in your field!
It's Easy to Fast-Track Your Career with the World's Best Experts
Master complex skills effortlessly with proven best practices and toolkits directly from the world's top design experts. Meet your expert for this course:
Alan Dix: Author of the bestselling book “Human-Computer Interaction” and Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University.
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Why Learn Information Visualization?
Information Visualization falls under the umbrella term of User Experience (UX) design. UX design is your fast-track to a meaningful, secure, and rewarding career.
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Salaries for people with design skills are soaring, often surpassing $200K in cities like San Francisco, and job growth is strong (13% globally). Why? Because companies thrive when their users are happy. Companies that invest in great design outperform the S&P 500 Index by a whopping 228%.
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Great design is all about helping people meet their needs and achieve their goals through intuitive, meaningful, and delightful experiences. Skills in design will empower you to create experiences and products that make people's lives easier and more fulfilling. And when people love what you create, your business thrives, and your salary potential grows. You get the ultimate double win:
You'll feel deeply fulfilled by designing experiences and products people love.
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Course Overview: What You'll Master
- Each week, one lesson becomes available.
- There's no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
- Estimated learning time: 18 hours 48 mins spread over 6 weeks.
Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction
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0.1: An Introduction to Courses from IxDF (37 mins)
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0.2: Get Help, Career Advice, and Job Opportunities (2 mins)
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0.3: How to Get Your Course Certificate (16 mins)
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0.4: Grow Your Global Network and Build Your Brand (12 mins)
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0.5: Global Skills, Local Jobs: Build Your Network in Your Area (2 mins)
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0.6: Gain Timeless Skills Through Courses from IxDF (21 mins)
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0.7: Mandatory vs Optional Lesson Items (7 mins)
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0.8: Learn Smarter: The Perfect Mix of Video and Text (6 mins)
Lesson 1: Introduction to Information Visualization
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1.1: An Introduction to Information Visualization (4 mins)
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1.2: Information Visualization – A Brief Introduction (17 mins)
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1.3: Information Visualisation - An Example (14 mins)
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1.4: What is Information Visualisation? (50 mins)
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1.5: The Continuum of Understanding and Information Visualization (20 mins)
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1.6: Guidelines for Good Visual Information Representations (20 mins)
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1.7: Why Information Visualisation? (34 mins)
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1.8: Information Visualization – Who Needs It? (20 mins)
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1.9: Information Visualization – A Brief Pre-20th Century History (18 mins)
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1.10: Information Visualization – A Brief 20th and 21st Century History (15 mins)
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1.11: A Brief History of Visualisation (31 mins)
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1.12: Demonstrating an Understanding of the Principles of What Makes a Good Information Visualization (7 mins)
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1.13: Lesson Roundup – An Introduction to Information Visualization (2 mins)
Lesson 2: Vision and Memory
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2.1: An Introduction to Memory and Visual Perception (3 mins)
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2.2: Vision and Visual Perception Challenges (20 mins)
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2.3: The Properties of Human Memory and Their Importance for Information Visualization (21 mins)
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2.4: Preattentive Visual Properties and How to Use Them in Information Visualization (20 mins)
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2.5: The Law of Similarity - Gestalt Principles (Part 1) (48 mins)
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2.6: Laws of Proximity, Uniform Connectedness, and Continuation – Gestalt Principles (Part 2) (24 mins)
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2.7: The Laws of Figure/Ground, Prägnanz, Closure, and Common Fate - Gestalt Principles (Part 3) (26 mins)
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2.8: Conversations (7 mins)
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2.9: Lesson Round Up – An Introduction to Memory and Visual Perception (2 mins)
Lesson 3: Basic Information Visualization
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3.1: An Introduction to Basic Information Visualization (2 mins)
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3.2: How to Design an Information Visualization (17 mins)
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3.3: Visual Mapping – The Elements of Information Visualization (16 mins)
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3.4: How to Represent Linear Data Visually for Information Visualization (17 mins)
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3.5: Visualisation in Context (48 mins)
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3.6: Designing Visualisation (49 mins)
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3.7: Conversations (7 mins)
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3.8: Roundup – An Introduction to Basic Information Visualization (2 mins)
Lesson 4: Advanced Information Visualization
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4.1: An Introduction to Advanced Information Visualization (3 mins)
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4.2: Information Visualization – An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis (22 mins)
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4.3: The Principles of Information Visualization for Basic Network Data (19 mins)
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4.4: How to Display Complex Network Data with Information Visualization (16 mins)
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4.5: How to Show Hierarchical Data with Information Visualization (16 mins)
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4.6: Information Overload, Why it Matters and How to Combat It (46 mins)
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4.7: Information Visualization an Introduction to Manipulable Information Representations (21 mins)
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4.8: Information Visualization an Introduction to Transformable Information Representations (20 mins)
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4.9: Classic Visualisations: Single Attribute (1 hour 3 mins)
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4.10: Classic Visualisations: Multiple Attributes (46 mins)
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4.11: Conversations (7 mins)
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4.12: Roundup – An Introduction to Advanced Information Visualization (2 mins)
Lesson 5: Evaluation
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5.1: An Introduction to Evaluating Information Visualizations (3 mins)
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5.2: How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation for Usability in HCI and Information Visualization (22 mins)
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5.3: How to Conduct a Cognitive Walkthrough (22 mins)
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5.4: How to Recruit Users for Usability Studies (18 mins)
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5.5: How to Conduct User Observations (48 mins)
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5.6: How to Conduct User Interviews (42 mins)
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5.7: How to Conduct Focus Groups (23 mins)
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5.8: Conversations (7 mins)
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5.9: Roundup – An Introduction to Evaluating Information Visualizations (2 mins)
Lesson 6: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up
How Others Have Benefited

Phillip Dodson, United States
“I wanted to thank you! IDF is just the best thing ever. Just ever! Making this information accessible and available at the high level of quality. Just awesome!”

Mark Bertinetti, Australia
“The instructor explained concepts in a very clear manner and this made it easier to understand.”

Virginie Hermand, France
“There were many visual examples, good and bad, which are necessary for this specific field (Information Visualization) to understand the underlying concepts.”
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