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CS 414

Data visualization

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Standard

Overview

Description

Visualizations for exploring data and explaining with data. Topics covered include categories of data analytics, types of data, selecting a chart type, data visualization and design, use of color, visualizing variability, exploring data visually, storytelling with charts, data dashboards, preparing data for visualization, and telling the truth with data graphics.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Junior or senior standing
  • equivalent computer programming course
CS 202STAT 352
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Junior or senior standing, CS 202 or equivalent computer programming course, and STAT 352

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

Restrictions

Junior or senior standing

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts, with a range of audiences.
  • recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in engineering and computing practice based on legal and ethical principles, considering the impact of solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
  • develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.