Storytelling with Data Visualisation

ACSPRI is offering a two day workshop.

Studies have shown that readers will only spend 3 to 8 seconds looking at each plot in a report before deciding whether to invest more time examining that plot or to move on to the next part of the report.

This master-class has two objectives – to teach the design principles required to make plots that really have an impact on the reader, and to teach the practical skills required to create these plots within the R software package.

Consider the two plots below. In which plot can you easily see the pattern the author wants to convey within the plot, and what you should do as a result of the plot?”

This course will be run over 2 days in three sessions per day:
 

• 9.00am - 10.30am - Session 1
• 11.30am - 1.00pm - Session 2
• 2.00 - 4.00pm - Session 3: exercises and consultation

 
Exercises will be provided and there will be opportunities for consultation with Mark in the afternoon sessions.

Instructor: 

Dr Mark Griffin is the Director of ResearchStats, which is a Division of Insight Research Services Associated (www.insightrsa.com). ResearchStats provides training and consulting in statistics for academic audiences. Mark is also an Industry Fellow with the School of Business, University of Queensland, and has established and written training materials for several of their courses in Business Analytics. Mark serves on the Executive Committee for the Statistical Society of Australia, and is Founding Chair of their Section for Business Analytics. Mark is also the Founding Chair of the Business Analytics Special Interest Group within the International Institute of Business Analysis. To date he has presented over 100 two-day and 30 five-day workshops in statistics around Australia.

Recommended Background: 

Some basic familiarity with the R software package is expected prior to the workshop. The participant does not need to have any previous experience using R for data preparation or data visualisation. No knowledge of statistics is required.

Recommended Texts: 

If students would like a head start in using R for data visualisation they may choose to look at: https://r-graphics.org/