ETC5523: Communicating With Data

This unit develops teamwork skills, through instruction on reproducibility and version control to conduct collaborative data analysis. These skills are practised in a team setting with a data analysis project.

Learning outcomes

  1. Effectively communicate data analysis, using a blog, reports and presentations
  2. Learn how to build a web app to provide an interactive data analysis
  3. Construct a data story

Teachers

Weekly schedule

  • 1 hour workshop, Mondays 10am-11am each week
  • 2 hour seminar, Monday 6pm-8pm each week
  • 1.5 hour tutorial, one of:
    • Monday 12pm-1pm
    • Monday 1pm-2pm
    • Monday 2pm-3pm

Consultation

  • Michael Lydeamore: Thursday 10am-11am (Rm 354, Building 6)
  • Maliny Po: Wednesday 1pm-2.30pm (Rm 232A, Building 6)
Week Date Topic Tutorial Reference Assessments
1 28 Jul Basic communication theory and practice Oral Presentations
2 04 Aug Basic Communitcation Theory and Presentations
3 11 Aug Data Storytelling on the Web
4 18 Aug Writing clearly and concisely Assignment 1
5 25 Aug Statistical model outputs and data tables
6 01 Sep Effective data visualisation
7 08 Sep Introduction to web technologies and styling Assignment 2
8 15 Sep R packages and documentation
9 22 Sep Communicating data with interactive web apps
29 Sep Mid-semester break
10 06 Oct Automated systems for code communication Assignment 3
11 13 Oct Guest lecture: Communicating risk in a natural disaster
12 20 Oct Course recap Assignment 4