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Data Storytelling

Overview

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Enquiry Please email to iss-blendedlearning@nus.edu.sg

Data Storytelling has become an extremely important skill in today’s corporate environment. It is 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.

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.

Our instructors who possess a wealth of industry experience will use real life examples and hands on workshops to help participants apply descriptive and diagnostic techniques; select appropriate charts and graphs; create powerful presentations; design productive dashboards and create viral infographics.

Key Takeaways

At the end of the course, learners will be able to:

●  Apply the principles of data visualisation.

● Present data led insights in a storyboard format. 

● Design effective dashboards for good decisioning.

● Develop infographics as a data storytelling mechanism for broad communication.



Structure

●  Course duration: 4.5 weeks.

●  Learners are recommended to set aside three to four hours of focused learning time to get the most out of the course.

●  This course is designed to be self-paced and cohort-based, with 3 synchronous live sessions via Zoom. Content will be released on a weekly basis.

●  Throughout the course, learners are expected to actively contribute to the group activities and are encouraged to apply the knowledge learnt. They will have ample opportunities to do so via discussions, peer learning, workshops, assessments, and applications.




Live Sessions

Learners are required to attend the mandatory Live Sessions scheduled (via Zoom) as part of the course requirement. This will help to reinforce learning with the cohort.  Please refer to the schedule below for each class:

Class 1
April 2023
●  Live session 1: Mon 3 April 2023, 4pm – 5pm *
●  Live session 2: Mon 10 April 2023, 4pm – 5pm *
●  Live session 3: Mon17 April 2023, 4pm – 5pm *

* All sessions are in Singapore Time.




Who Should Attend

This course is appropriate for:

●  Any business professionals who wish to develop the necessary skills to effectively present insights from data. Through a blended learning approach, involving discussion and case based workshop activities, participants will acquire fundamental skills required to present their data visualisation and storytelling.
 



Fees And Funding

Type of Learners  Course Fee Total course fee payable, including GST
Learners residing in Singapore (SGD) SGD 900 SGD 963
Learners residing outside Singapore (USD) USD 700 USD 700



Things To Note

● The NUS-ISS Certificate of Completion will be issued to learners who have met the course requirements successfully. This will include attending all synchronous Zoom sessions and completing the learning activities, workshops and assessments (where applicable).

● Read the terms and conditions of NUS-ISS Course Registration here.

● Read about NUS-ISS and Learner’s Commitment and Responsibilities here.

● All classes are subject to confirmation and NUS-ISS will send an acceptance email to learners one week prior to the commencement date.

● All responses to feedback and surveys conducted by NUS-ISS and its partners must be submitted by learners.




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