What you'll learn

At the core of creating meaningful data visualizations is a thorough knowledge of understanding your data and your visualization requirements. In this course, Analyzing Data Visualization Requirements, you’ll learn how to prepare to build data visualizations. First, you’ll learn how to distinguish different types of data. Next, you’ll discover how to use visualizations to explore a dataset, or explain a point. Finally, you’ll examine how to adapt a visualization for a specific audience and medium. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of data visualizations that will help you as you move forward to create visualizations for your own datasets.