Data Storytelling

Overview

Data Storytelling has become an extremely important skill in today’s corporate environment. It is an effective way to share organisation information and drive outcomes. The rate that businesses collect data today is phenomenal. Therefore, data storytelling is important for professionals to communicate findings, tailored to a specific audience, with a compelling narrative.

Course Description & Learning Outcomes

The course equips participants with essential skills to draw insights from data, deploy story boards and present their insights using the most effective visual representations. Skills learnt in this course would help place the organisation on the path towards data driven decision making. This course is part of the Data Science, Graduate Certificate in Analytics Project Management and the Professional Diploma in Smart Health Leadership series offered by NUS-ISS. At the end of the course, the participants will be able to: - Apply different types of data related questions and analytics patterns - Deconstruct principles of data visualisation - Apply exploratory, descriptive and diagnostic analysis - Apply storytelling framework - Create presentations that effectively present the data story - Design a dashboard for achieving business outcomes - Design and Create Infographics for broad communication

Recommended Prerequisites

- Basic Excel and PowerPoint skills are assumed. - Participants with limited knowledge of the above may consider acquiring them via GCF Learn for Excel & PowerPoint

Pre-course instructions

- No printed copies of course materials are issued. - Participants must bring their internet-enabled computing device (laptops, tablet etc) with power charger to access and download course materials. - Additional Software Requirements • Power BI Desktop • Powerpoint • Excel Registration close date: 18/09/2023