Data Storytelling

Overview Key Takeaways Who Should Attend ICT and SS Competency Framework Course Structure Instructors Fees Upcoming Classes How To Register

Overview

Duration	3 days
Course Time	9.00am - 5.00pm
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This course is delivered by NUS-ISS.

Data Storytelling has become an extremely important skill in today’s corporate environment. It is effective way to share organisation information and drive outcomes. The rate that businesses collect data today is phenomenal. Therefore, data storytelling is important for professionals to communicate findings, tailored to a specific audience, with a compelling narrative.

The course equips participants with essential skills to draw insights from data, deploy story boards and present their insights using the most effective visual representations. Skills learnt in this course would help place the organisation on the path towards data driven decision making.

Our instructors who possess a wealth of industry experience will use real life examples and hands on workshops to help participants apply descriptive and diagnostic techniques; select appropriate charts and graphs; create powerful presentations; design productive dashboards and create viral infographics.

This course is part of the NUS-ISS Graduate Certificate in Analytics Project Management (stackable to an NUS Masters Degree) as well part of the NUS-ISS Professional Diploma in Smart Health Leadership.

Key Takeaways

At the end of this course, the participiants will be able to:

Apply different types of data related questions and analytics patterns
Deconstruct principles of data visualisation
Apply exploratory, descriptive and diagnostic analysis
Apply storytelling framework
Create presentations that effectively present the data story
Design a dashboard for achieving business outcomes
Design and Create Infographics for broad communication

Who Should Attend

This course is designed as an introductory course for anyone with an interest in data storytelling. Specifically:

Participants working in client facing roles, interacting with various stakeholders or departments within the organisation, leading teams or working with data analysis/data visualisation regularly would find this course useful
Participants with a work experience of 2 years or more will appreciate this course better

Pre-requisites

Basic Excel and PowerPoint skills are assumed.

Participants with limited knowledge of the above may consider acquiring them via GCF Learn for Excel & PowerPoint

ICT and SS Competency Framework

As part of the ICTCF, this course falls under the Data Science & AI functional clusters and tagged to the following competencies:

Visual Analytics Principles
Data Storytelling

The course is mapped to the following job roles:

Data Engineer
Quantitative Analyst

Course Structure

This course will cover the following topics:

Data story boarding framework and workshop
Visual selection framework and workshop
Best practices of visualisation and presentation, theory and workshop
Dashboarding concepts and workshop
Infographics best practices and workshop

Instructors

Fees

	Full Fee
Full course fee	S$1800
7% GST on nett course fee	S$126
Total nett course fee payable, including GST	S$1926

Upcoming Classes

Class 1

Duration: 3 days

21 Nov 2022 to 23 Nov 2022 (Full Time)

When :

Nov:

21, 22, 23

Time : 9am -5pm

Registration:

Class 2

Duration: 3 days

24 Feb 2023 to 28 Feb 2023 (Full Time)

When :

Feb:

24, 27, 28

Time : 9am -5pm

Registration:

How To Register

Agency-sponsored

Step 1

Apply through your organisation's training request system.

Step 2

Your organisation's training request system (or relevant HR staff) confirms your organisation's approval for you to take the course.

Your organisation will send registration information to the academy.

Organisation HR L&D or equivalent staff can click here for details of the registration submission process.

Step 3

The Digital Academy will inform you whether you have been successful in enrolment.