Online Training

Data Visualisation and Storytelling for Government

Practical theories, tools, techniques and strategies to create scalable, interactive and actionable data visualisation and storytelling solutions

4 & 12 June 2024

10:00 AM to 2:30 PM AEST

Next intake: 4 & 12 June 2024 | 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM AEST

Overview

In the data-driven economy, mastering data visualization and storytelling is increasingly vital. Governments at all levels accumulate vast amounts of data daily, turning it into a crucial resource for informed decision-making. Yet, handling, managing, and extracting actionable insights from these complex datasets poses challenges. Leading a data team to responsibly and accurately inform organizational or political decisions adds another layer of difficulty.

Emerging as a tool to overcome this challenge is data visualisation. Naturally, the human brain is pre-programmed to respond faster to visual cues, and with the rise of big data in recent years, the importance of data visualisation, coupled with the art of data storytelling, has grown exponentially. Data-driven decisions in government, and therefore, improved operational efficiencies and citizen outcomes, hinge just as much on data leadership as it does on day-to-day data practitioners.

This course offers essential theories, tools, and techniques for establishing a successful data visualization and storytelling capability. Through a blend of lectures, group exercises, and expert feedback, participants learn how to leverage data visualization to uncover insights, create compelling narratives, and secure stakeholder buy-in for informed decision-making.

Who Should Attend?

Specialists, Analysts, Advisors, Officers:
• Data Analyst • Business Intelligence Analyst • Business Analyst • Economist • Policy
• Health Informatics • Environment Analyst • Geospatial Information • Research and Evaluation • Reporting and Performance

Learning Outcomes

Develop a basic understanding of the latest tools and software for visualising data
Create scalable, interactive and actionable data visualisation solutions
Explore secrets of design fundamentals for data visualisation and communication
Build fundamental skills in data science and analytics

Online Training

Data Visualisation and Storytelling for Government


Session details

  • Begin your journey of making data visualisation a core competency
  • Break through the noise and data overload have forming a compelling narrative
  • Sharpen your skills in a platform and tech-agnostic environment
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Level: Fundamentals

No previous experience necessary

Key Sessions

History and fundamentals of data visualisation and storytelling

  • History of data visualisation, recent developments
    and future outlook
  •  Visualisation to drive decision-making for your
    department
  • Knowing your why, and what your data needs to
    achieve

Driving an organisation’s data maturity to support compelling data storytelling

  •  Making sense of your organisation’s analytics
    capacity to create compelling data visualisations
  • Plotting a roadmap from business strategy to data
    visualisation
  • Understanding what makes successful organisations
    do data visualisation right

Key components and best practices in data visualisation

  •  Understanding graph theory and colour theory
  • How different shapes and objects are perceived, and
    create meaning
  • Practical interactive activities exploring use cases of
    data visualisation

Review case studies and data visualisation examples

  • Assess and critique various use cases and meaning
    of data visualisation
  • Working with data effectively and the importance of
    tool selection
  • Design fundamentals for data visualisation

Fundamentals of design principles in the context of data visualisation

  • Formats for data visualisation and presentation –
    chart types, animation, infographics
  • Picking the right visual language and graphical form
  • Simplifying the data to tell your story more effectively

Building narratives for successful data visualisation
and storytelling

  •  Learn the power of narrative, and how to effectively communicate with data
  •  Understand the power of visual storytelling
  • Making the right graphical choices, and controlling
    the narrative

A brief overview of data visualisation software and
other information visualisation tools

  • Explore information presentation tools and software
    options
  • Differences between different types of visualisation,
    tools and best practice
  • Overview of many commercial as well as opensource tools and applications

Final summative data visualisation & storytelling activity and concluding thoughts

  •  Revisit main themes, tools, techniques and strategies
  • Apply learning based on a practical, hands-on data visualisation and storytelling exercise
  • Group discussion, final reflections and insights

Meet Your Facilitator

Felipe Rego

Data Science & Analytics Partner | feliperego.com.au

Felipe is a leading advanced analytics and data science partner, helping teams build, manage and enhance their data science, analytics, and data visualisation solutions in a strategically aligned, commercially oriented, and customer-centered way. With extensive industry experience as well as deep, technical analytical expertise, Felipe is often required by analytics, marketing, sales, finance, technology and strategy teams to provide support and deliver robust solutions that are easy to use, understand, and implement.

Felipe’s unique methodology focuses on a holistic organisational approach to using data science and data visualisation to increase transparency, improve performance and reduce costs. Felipe helps organisations and teams with Data Science and Analytics Strategy and Governance, Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning solutions, Data Visualisation and Insights Automation and Analytical Training and Workshops.

He received an M.Phil. in Electrical and Information Engineering with specialization in Learning Analytics from The University of Sydney. He is a Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer and he also served as a data visualisation and storytelling advisor for the South Australian Health Department’s Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health’s Clinical Informatics Group.

 

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