Overview

This micro-unit focuses on data visualisation and equipping students with the relevant visualisation skills to assist in visualising business-related datasets. Students will have the opportunity to learn about data visualisations and various tools and techniques to present data in various domains and formats.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Critically analyse the concept of data visualisation and its application in various organisational contexts and datasets.
  • Critically evaluate and choose appropriate data analytics tools and techniques to implement data visualisation.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Class		8.00 1 week 8
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		2.00 2 weeks 4
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		7.00 4 weeks 28
TOTAL40

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 0% 1,2 

Content

  • Data visualisation, dashboard design, storyboarding with analytics
  • Applications of visualisation in various types of analytics including: descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, sentiment and geospatial

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.