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

  • 2 hour seminar, Friday 2pm-4pm each week
  • 1 hour workshop, Friday 4pm-5pm each week
  • 1.5 hour tutorial, one of:
    • Wednesday 12pm-1pm
    • Wednesday 1pm-2pm

Consultation

  • Michael Lydeamore: Tuesdays 1.30pm-2.30pm (Rm 354, Building 6 [Clayton campus])
  • Fonti Kar: Thursdays 2pm-4pm (Hybrid, H6.48 [Caulfield campus])
Week Date Topic Workshop Tutorial Assessments
1 31 Jul Basic communication theory and practice
2 07 Aug Basic Communitcation Theory and Presentations
3 14 Aug Data Storytelling on the Web
4 21 Aug Writing clearly and concisely
5 28 Aug Statistical model outputs and data tables
6 04 Sep Effective data visualisation
7 11 Sep Introduction to web technologies and styling
8 18 Sep R packages and documentation
8 25 Sep R packages and documentation
9 02 Oct Communicating data with interactive web apps
10 09 Oct Communicating data interatively: Part 2
11 16 Oct Automated systems for code communication
12 23 Oct Professional Skills Communication