Dataviz training

program 2022

Publications Office of the EU

Training 1: Design principles for

data visualisation

Maarten Lambrechts

Introduction, Monday 7 march 2022

DATAVIZ TRAINING 1

Design principles for data visualisation

7 - 11 March 2022

Training introduction, 7 March 2022

Maarten Lambrechts

Outline

Educational approach

Graphic design?

Graphic design and data visualisation

Practicalities

q&A

EU DATAVIz training program: calendar

ecucational approach

pedagogical approach

100% remote

Asynchronous learning

MOdULeS

readings

Video lectures

Exercises & assignments

Live sessions

16 hours of training, spread over 5 working days

pedagogical approach

Live SessioNs

Training introduction (Monday morning)

Feedback & discussions (Friday Afternoon)

Questions & answers (Tuesday and Thursday)

online discussion document for Q&A

Training closure (Friday afternoon)

Graphic design?

The art of designing pictures and text for books, magazines, advertising, etc.

The art of designing pictures and text for books, magazines, advertising, etc.

The art or profession of using design elements (such as typography and images) to convey information or create an effect

Graphic design is the profession and academic discipline whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives.
Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. They use typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to create visual compositions.

Old Wikipedia article

Graphic designers produce visual representations of ideas to convey information by using design elements like typography, layout and composition

graphic design and

data visualisation

"Explanatory" data visualisation

"Exploratory" data visualisation

Graphic Data visualisation designers produce visual representations of ideas data to convey information by using design elements like typography, layout and composition

practicalities

16 hours of study time, to be spread over this week

Suggested order of modules...

... but some have prerequisite models, to be completed first

Live sessions have a fixed timing:

This introduction live session Now
Q&A live session 1 Tuesday 8/03, 16-17h
Q&A live session 2 Thursday 10/03, 16-17h
Assignment results discussion Friday 11/03, 2:30-3:30h
Closing live session Friday 11/03, 3:30-4:30h

Assignments have a submission deadline

The platform for the training is Notion: www.notion.so

Create an account with your EU email address: instructions

You will be added as a guest to the training materials. This will allow you to:

  • find all the training materials and links easily
  • add comments and questions
  • submit assignments

All module pages have a link to the next module at the bottom, and a link to the overview page

Track your progress by duplicating the training progress page (click the Duplicate link in the top navigation)

Apart from the Q&A live sessions, there is a dedicated Q&A page that you can use to pose questions

You have comment permissions on all pages, so you can add questions directly in the pages (you can mention me with "@Maarten Lambrechts")

You have edit permissions on the assignment pages, so you can add your submission directly to these pages

Links

q&a

EU DataViz training 2022: calendar

Design principles for data visualisation
 
7 - 11 March
Telling your story with data visualisation
 
28 March - 1 April
Pitfalls in data and data visualisation
 
25 - 29 April
Dataviz in practice: all the dirty little tricks no one tells you about 30 May - 3 June
A deep dive into chart types: bars, lines and beyond 27 June - 1 July
Make your audience inclusive: accessibility for data visualisation 19 - 23 September
A language to think and talk about visualisations: the Grammar of Graphics 17 - 21 October

have fun studying and learning!

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