Intro to Data Visualization & Mapping

Are you a UVic student or Staff member and want to learn more about data visualization and mapping? If so, then this hands-on workshop will give you an introduction. Once you’ve completed this session you will be able to do or be aware of the following:

• The use cases & visualization styles possible
• Why “cleaning” data is necessary & clean it a Google Sheet or Excel Spreadsheet
• Best practices for sentiment analysis & do some sentiment analysis
• Create a Google Sheets bar graph
• Create a Google Sheets pie chart
• Create a Google My Maps using Open Data
• Find open data online
• Collaborative data gathering
• Know how to publish visualization and/or tables to the web. And collaborate with others
• Storymap JS 
  
• Timeline JS
• Juxtapose JS
• Awareness of other more advanced tools like Tableau, QGIS, & ARC-GIS

Check for workshop availability and register here. View the workshop lesson plan here: Data Visualization & Narrative Maps with Google Sheets, Google Maps, & Knight Lab tools.