PSYC 81.09 Storytelling with Data

Humanity creates nearly 350 TB of data each day, and much of it is freely available for us to download.  But making sense of that staggering amount of text, video, audio, and other forms of data is like drinking from a firehose: the sheer quantity of data makes it tricky to make sense of what it means.  In this course we will study how to find, clean, analyze, make sense of, and communicate about complex data.

In addition to helping you to build up your data science toolbox, the course is centered around telling engaging, compelling, (often) entertaining, and, above all, clear “stories” about data.  This will require considering your audience’s mindset, goals, motivations, and backgrounds, and then leveraging those considerations to develop effective ways of conveying the major plot points.

Instructor

Manning

Prerequisite

Instructor permission through the department website

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