Data Visualisation for Business

CET Course | SkillsFuture Claimable Course

Synopsis

ANL201 Data Visualisation for Business is designed to equip students with knowledge and skills to use data visualisation in measuring and monitoring business performance. Firstly, students acquire knowledge of the business performance measurement framework and visualisation techniques. Secondly, they learn various stages of data management - data cleaning, exploratory analysis and data treatment. Finally, they learn how to combine the first two to create an effective, aesthetic and interpretable graphical representation of business performance - a business performance dashboard using data visualisation package. Through this course, students will learn to use data to make more informed decisions through effective visualisation and communication of the story hidden in the data. They will also acquire software skills for day-to-day work that will help them pursue career growth.

Level: 2
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY REGULAR SEMESTER

Topics

Business performance measurement models
Mapping business performance
Principles of designing effective data visualisation
Data types and structures
Preliminary / exploratory data analysis
Data preparation and challenges
Using data visualisation software
Methods to visualise and interpret discrete data
Methods to visualise and interpret continuous data
Visualisation techniques for specialised datasets
BUsiness performance dashboard design principles
Developing an impactful dashboard

Learning Outcome

Identify key metrics for business perfomance measurement.
Explain the end-to-end process of creating business performance dashboard from data.
Use strategy map for business performance measurement.
Inspect and prepate data for visualisation.
Determine appropriate data visualisation tecniques based on given data.
Develop data visualisation dashboard using a software package.

Full-time Programmes Part-time Programmes / CET Courses

Singapore University of Social Sciences