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ENV 603a () / 2024-2025

Environmental Data Visualization for Communication

Credits: 3
Fall 2024: M,W, 9:00-10:20, Kroon 321
 
 
This is a combination lecture and hands-on course designed to explore principles of visual communication and apply them to the design and construction of effective graphics. Students will build skills in working with data, programming in R, and data visualization using a variety of tools and methods (DataWrapper, Tableau, Google Sheets, etc). No prior experience with R is required.
 
There is a strong emphasis on active participation through learning new skills, helping others acquire skills and troubleshoot problems, and critiquing other’s work. Effective graphics are informed by design principles and more complex displays are improved through an iterative process that requires dialog, feedback, and testing.
 
Enrollment in the class is limited. We will meet twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00 to 10:20am. There will be weekly assignments and a final project that will be developed throughout the course, and there will be ample support offered through regular office hours.
 
To apply for this course, please provide short answers to the following questions. This will allow us to tailor the course more closely to your needs. Please email your responses to simon.queenborough@yale.eduand sophie.roberts@yale.eduno later than 5:00 pm EST on Monday, August 28th. Thank you!
 
You will be notified by Monday, September 2.
 
  1. Degree and expected graduation year
 
  1. Why are you interested in taking this class?
 
  1. What is your area of interest/research?
 
  1. Have you recently taken any classes that required you to explore or analyze data, such as statistics, GIS courses, etc.? If so, please list them.
 
  1. Do you have an existing project or dataset in mind that you would like to explore and visualize? If so, please describe it and state whether you already have access to the data, or not yet. (This is not required – you will have the opportunity to explore existing datasets.)
 
  1. What previous experience do you have, if any, with communication and/or design?
 
Limited to 20