On completion of this unit the student should be able to apply the problem-solving methodology and use appropriate software tools to create data visualisations that meet users' needs.
- analyse information problems
- select appropriate sources of data and identify relevant data
- determine the suitability of different data types and structures for creating visualisations
- select types of visualisations that are appropriate to the data
- select and apply appropriate tools to represent the design of the visualisations
- apply software functions to locate and acquire data that will be input and manipulated
- use appropriate software tools, and select and apply a range of suitable functions to efficiently develop different types of effective data visualisations
- select appropriate techniques and apply criteria to determine the extent to which data visualisations meet users' needs.