Course Details

Visualization for Persuasion
LDEV-458-5
Previously Known as KACI-458-5
0.5 CR
Elective
PASS / NO CREDIT
Yes (may vary by section)
DESCRIPTION
Be persuasive in presenting your ideas. Learn to convince your clients, customers, and colleagues of the merits of your views, using the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science, computer science, and graphic design. The course covers the neuroscience behind the path from understanding to memory, the power of engaging an audience's visual and motor systems, and the importance of leveraging existing brain networks through stories and metaphors. Through interactive exercises, the course will provide hands-on experience and tools for presenting data-based evidence with impact, across images, graphics, and visualizations of big data. Leave this course with expertise in the principles and cutting- edge methods for effective data visualization, as well as a practical toolkit for conveying your ideas in ways that are convincing, catchy, and contagious Format: Lecture Deliverable: Presentation file. A video description of this course can be found here
TRACKS
Data Analytics Pathway
Managing Organizations Major
SCHEDULE SUMMARY
Fall 2024
Winter 2025
CH
EV
CH
EV

CH (Chicago)
EV (Evanston)
DayTime
Evening
Saturdays
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PREREQUISITES
Negative Prerequisite:
All Students: KACI-458-5 AND KACI-925-5 AND DSGN-426-0