ISYS6645 · Information Systems
Carroll School of Management
This course covers foundations of data visualization and best practices to help students effectively analyze data and present their insights clearly in a way that will engage their audience. The course provides discussions and presentations on topics such as visual perception, the various chart types and when to use them, the effective use of colors, typography, maps, and other visualization techniques for incorporating analytics and storytelling, and teaches through many examples of compare and contrast. The conceptual discussions will be integrated with hands-on experience using Tableau.STEM-designated.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.2 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.2 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.1 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.2 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~4.5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
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Student perspective
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May 6, 2025 · Historical comment
Not a hard class but WARNING: at the beginning of the semester she is going to claim that this class is not about learning the tableau software. That was a complete lie as more than half the final is going to be working within the tableau software. Very nice/understanding but lock in with tableau
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Summer 2024
1 sectionSpring 2024
1 sectionFall 2023
1 sectionSummer 2023
1 sectionSpring 2023
2 sectionsFall 2022
2 sectionsSummer 2022
2 sectionsSpring 2022
3 sectionsFall 2021
1 sectionSummer 2021
2 sectionsSpring 2021
2 sectionsFall 2020
1 section