Explain design techniques for data visualization

Based on your Module topics, what did you find new and interesting?  And what appeared to be a review?  Also, identify at least one discussion post you found interesting, helpful, or beneficial (and why).

Topics covered in this Module

• Data visualization
• Table design principles
• Chart types
• PivotCharts
• Advanced data visualization
• Data dashboards
• Events and probabilities
• Conditional probability
• Random variables
• Discrete probability distributions
• Continuous probability distributions

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

• Explain design techniques for data visualization
• Create pivot tables, scatter charts, bar charts, bubble charts, pivotcharts in Excel
• Identify applications for data dashboards
• Describe events and probabilities
• Explain conditional probability, Bayes’ Theorem, Multiplication Law
• Discuss random variables and probability distribution
• Calculate in Excel
  • expected value
  • variance
  • standard deviation
  • binomial probabilities
  • poisson probabilities
  • mean
  • exponential probabilities