Isaac

“For me, Dataquest was great because it was all hands-on projects — there weren’t any videos, so I could just read through and go at my own pace.”

Isaac Pato

Data Science / Quality Engineer @Cirium

Course overview

This particular course is for intermediate Python users, and it builds upon the essentials covered in our previous Python visualization lessons. You’ll learn how to use Python libraries like Matplotlib and Seaborn to transform raw data into compelling and actionable visualizations. You’ll learn the most common data visualization techniques, and you’ll use Python to generate beautiful, insightful, and meaningful visuals that will give new life to your data.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser. You’ll apply your skills to several guided projects involving realistic business scenarios to build your portfolio and prepare for your next interview.

Key skills

  • Using information design principles to build narratives
  • Building data visualizations to tell compelling stories
  • Creating graphs using information design principles
  • Creating visual patterns using Gestalt principles

Course outline

Telling Stories Using Data Visualization and Information Design [5 lessons]

Design for an Audience 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Create graphs using design principles
  • Choose the proper graph using the familiarity principle
  • Improve a graph by maximizing the data-ink ratio
  • Make advanced graph edits using Matplotlib

Storytelling Data Visualization 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Identify the elements of a data story
  • Build a data story using Matplotlib

Gestalt Principles and Pre-Attentive Attributes 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Recognize patterns among distinct objects
  • Create data visualizations using Gestalt principles
  • Control attention using pre-attentive attributes

Matplotlib Styles: FiveThirtyEight Case Study 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Employ Matplotlib's built-in styles
  • Create a FiveThirtyEight graph using Matplotlib

Guided Project: Storytelling Data Visualization on Exchange Rates 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Create a story using data
  • Create data visualizations using brainstorming and sketching
  • Create a narrative data visualization using Matplotlib

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Storytelling Data Visualization on Exchange Rates

Combine the skills you’ve learned to create a storytelling data visualization.

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Build your project portfolio

Build your project portfolio

Build confidence with our in-depth projects, and show off your data skills.

Challenge yourself with exercises

Challenge yourself with exercises

Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

Showcase your path certification

Showcase your path certification

Impress employers by completing a capstone project and certifying it with an expert review.

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