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Data Visualization: Storytelling Strategies
DPI 853M

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Description

This course prepares students to become critical consumers and producers of data visualizations. Promoting evidence-based policy requires technical expertise, ethical awareness, and an ability to create authentic, relatable stories. Through hands-on exercises, focused on real world public policy challenges, students will learn to source, clean, and analyze data as input to design compelling infographics, websites, and short videos. . We will craft narratives that humanize the subjects depicted in visualizations, evoking empathy and compassion in the audience. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to use data visualizations and generative AI tools for clear, persuasive, and ethical data storytelling.

School Harvard Kennedy School
Credits 2
Cross Reg

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Department HKS Government
Course Component Lecture
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HKS Letter Graded
Academic Areas Democracy, Politics, and Institutions