Discover the data.europa academy: Tenth course, ‘Introducing data
visualisation’
The tenth course of the restructured data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news/dataeuropa-academy-discover-our-11-open-data-courses]
called ‘Introducing data visualisation
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/introducing-data-visualisation]’
showcases how you can use data to create inspiring and practical
visualisations, and how it can be used to tell a story and take your
audience on a journey. By the end of this course, you will know how to
design state-of-the art data visualisation.

In the digital era, data visualisation is a critical asset and
essential tool that allows people to grasp information in a second.
The first lesson, ‘How to make your date easier to visualise
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/how-make-your-data-easier-visualise]’
highlights examples of data repositories and a set of guidelines for
data sharing policies to create data visualisations. The second lesson
‘Accessibility in data visualisation
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/accessibility-data-visualisation]’
introduces Knowage, a comprehensive open-source analytics and business
intelligence platform aiming to make data accessible to visually
impaired people. You will learn how to work with ‘hidden data’ to
visualise intangible phenomena in the third lesson ‘Making the
invisible visible
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/making-invisible-visible]’. 

The fourth lesson ‘Honest visuals: Ethics in data visualisation
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/honest-visuals-ethics-data-visualisation]’
delves into the honesty of data visualisations, explaining how to spot
misleading visuals and prevent biases and misinformation when
selecting context and visualisations. Explaining complex content
requires powerful visualisations and innovative communication, which
will be explained in the lesson ‘Getting our message across
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/getting-our-message-across]’. To
make your data visualisations more powerful, the lesson ‘Dataviz
Aesthetics [https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/dataviz-aesthetics]’
demonstrates the role of designing with aesthetics in mind.

How you can go beyond the basic bar graphs and pie charts will be
highlighted in the lesson ‘Going beyond bars and lines: Effective,
non-standard data visualisation
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/going-beyond-bars-and-lines-effective-non-standard-data-visualisation]’.
Through the lesson ‘Telling your story through data visualisation
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/telling-your-story-through-data-visualisation]’
you will discover how to improve storytelling with data
visualisations. Concrete tools for effective data visualisations,
common pitfalls and best practices are showed in the lesson
‘Guidelines for effective data visualisations
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/guidelines-effective-data-visualisation]’.


To conclude, the lesson ‘Data in Publications
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/data-publications]’ provides a
guide with tips, examples, resources and visual aids as a handy
toolbox which will help you with all of the data-related aspects of
your publication. Take a look at this guide and the tenth course
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/introducing-data-visualisation] of
the data.europa academy [https://data.europa.eu/en/academy] and create
state-of-art data visualisations!

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Publication Date/Time
2023-07-24T08:00:00+00:00
Learn how to create data visualisations, tell your story and take your
audience on a journey