By completing this course you will develop a clear understanding of the role of data within business, social and cultural contexts, and have the ability to visualise and generate a creative outcome - using data - aligned to your own research interests.

Literacy around data is becoming critical in all forms of practice: be it Big Data (analysis of patterns in large and connected data sets), Open Data (public reporting and government transparency), or personal data (monitoring personal activities).

In this course you will explore the connection between design processes and data to generate informative and creative visual outcomes. You might be from a creative discipline wanting to better understand how to use data, or alternatively, be interested in how the creative applications of data - through visualisation and interaction - can be applied to your discipline. This course is designed to introduce you to new ways of working with data that promote creative outcomes driven by data.

This course is divided into two main themes. Firstly, learning by exploring the core principles of using data within creative scenarios like Data Visualisation, Data Journalism, and Data Art precedents. Secondly, you apply these principles to your own creative project that integrates techniques that are critical to a data-design process: sourcing data, analysis, filtering, visualisation, design iteration, interactivity and presentation.