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Data Visualization and Storytelling

Communicate data clearly and honestly: why and when to visualize, choosing the right chart, designing for clarity, telling a persuasive data story, and building focused dashboards. Intermediate, ending with a build-a-story-or-dashboard capstone.

INTERMEDIATE · en · ~240 min

Instructor: Self-paced · Reviewed by: Iroko Skills Academy team · Published by: Iroko Skills Academy team

Learning objectives

  • Choose the right chart type for each kind of question
  • Design charts for clarity and represent data honestly
  • Build a data story from context to evidence to insight to recommendation
  • Create a focused, decision-driving dashboard

Before you start

Prerequisites: None

Device/connectivity: Laptop or desktop computer with a modern web browser and keyboard, Internet access for lessons, tools, and assignment submission

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What you'll cover

  1. Visualization Foundations

    • Why visualize data
    • Choosing the right chart

  2. Clarity and Story

    • Designing for clarity
    • Telling a story with data

  3. Dashboards and Capstone

    • Dashboards: data at a glance
    • Capstone: build a data story or dashboard

Assessment and completion criteria

Complete every published lesson to earn a completion badge. A self-paced certificate also requires passing every server-graded quiz. Practical assignments provide project feedback and may support a separate verified-proficiency record, but they do not delay the standard course certificate.

  • Optional reviewed project: Build a data story or dashboard · rubric v1 · pass ≥ 70%