In a fast-paced world with ever more information surrounding us, the ability to share information succinctly and use data to tell compelling stories has become a vital skill. This certificate program will be helpful to professionals in a range of settings who create reports, presentations, and other communications using data. Class meetings provide students with opportunities to learn and apply data visualization best practices for developing charts in Excel and other visuals for dissemination products, such as presentations, dashboards, reports, and one-pagers. Through a variety of activities, participants will build skills at creating dissemination plans to reach specific audiences, learn strategies to engage stakeholders with data findings, and gain practice telling stories with data. Participants are encouraged to work on their own datasets or projects within the program, engaging in class assignments and activities to create products that will be useful for their own agency setting or interests.
By the end of the program, participants will:
1. Understand data visualization best practices and principles, as well as why these best practices support comprehension of data
2. Be able to identify best practices for communicating and presenting both quantitative and qualitative data
3. Have a fundamental understanding of how to apply best practices to creating charts in Excel and layouts/visuals in PowerPoint
4. Develop a dissemination plan that includes identification of tailored products for different audiences
Online Program: This 5 session online program includes trainings via Zoom on February 9, February 23, March 8, April 5, and April 19 with asynchronous work in between live sessions. All training sessions will be held from 8:30am – 12:30pm, Central Time. $1995
Continuing Education Information: 45 Missouri/Illinois social work CEUs 45 public health CPH units