Instructor-Led On-Site Workshop

Immersive one day on-site course providing teams of up to 20 with hands-on instruction. $12,000 for 20 people + $500 for each additional person.

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Bill Shander, Instructor - One-Day Data Storytelling, Infographics and Visualization Workshop for Individuals & Organizations

Bill Shander

Bill Shander is Founder of Beehive Media, a Boston-based data visualization and information design consultancy. Bill specializes in creating interactive experiences for thought leadership, research, advocacy, and knowledge management. Clients over the years have included the World Bank, United Nations, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Harvard University, Facebook, and the EPA.
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Instructor: Bill Shander

Curriculum designed for enterprise-level clients with teams of up to 20. $12,000 for 20 people + $500 for each additional person.

  • Learn the strategies for creating memorable and effective data visualization & infographics for your organization.
  • Instructor has conducted his visualization workshops with Facebook, The United Nations, and Harvard University. 

Course Description

Learn the art and science, the theory and practical hands-on tactics and skills necessary for creating compelling communications experiences based on surveys, scientific research, public or proprietary data sources. In individual and team exercises, you will work your way up from basic visual thinking exercises to creating full outlines and plans for static and/or interactive infographics. You will practice converting abstract ideas and data into visuals, allowing you to conceptualize and produce a complete infographic that could be handed to a designer for collaboration and execution. Join Bill Shander, data visualization expert and top-rated workshop presenter, as he walks through a day's long curriculum specially designed for different members of your team. Space is limited (the event is restricted to 30 people) – which means you have a lot of access to Bill’s expertise. In this very hands-on practical and intimate setting, you will be exposed to some lecture and a lot of hands-on exercises, allowing students to learn by doing, not just watching and listening. Learn: – Strategies for creating memorable and effective infographics for your organization – How to think about data and the visual communication of data – About information hierarchy and data visualization best practices – The neuroscience and psychology behind how your audience will receive your infographics – About research into best practices for data design and communications

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What am I going to get from this course?

  • Oversee a data communications project - whether an infographic, data storytelling piece or data dashboard
  • Understand best practices in data storytelling from a research-backed perspective
  • Choose the best form to visualize and communicate their data to any audience

Prerequisites and Target Audience

What will students need to know or do before starting this course?

You don't really need to know any specific skills to take this course. This course has been delivered successfully to communications departments with zero data analytics skills, as well as to consulting firms with deep analytics skills. The only thing you need for this workshop is a desire to improve your data communications and an open mind.

Who should take this course? Who should not?

This course is specifically designed for people who really want to improve their ability to communicate about and with data. This is not for helping you improve your analytics skillset. It's all about how to think about an audience and package up your data in a way that connects directly with your audience.

Curriculum

Module 1: Module 1

Lecture 1 Opening Presentation

To start the day, I discuss the primary challenges communicators face trying to reach audiences in today’s world. The solution to these challenges are many, but revolve primarily around my “4X4 Model for Knowledge Content”, which is a simple framework for presenting content to people in different layers and with key aspects, including visualization and storytelling. I then walk through the four-step process required to turn data into visual narratives, interspersed with exercises and lots of research-backed best practices along the way.

Lecture 2 4x4 Model Exercise

Practice getting to a narrow, focused idea from a large complex pile of information.

Lecture 3 Data Storytelling Exercise

Practice turning numbers into narrative using outlining techniques.

Lecture 4 Group (Data) Analysis

We review some basic data analysis tactics (when this workshop is delivered to communications staff and not analysts!)

Lecture 5 Warmup Exercises

We spend a half hour doing some great warmup whiteboard exercises, getting everyone thinking visually and expressing abstract ideas in visual form. This is fun and really helps build confidence on the part of the group.

Lecture 6 Team Exercise

We break into small teams (of 5-6 people) and create a relatively straightforward infographic (on paper/whiteboard) using a concept I bring with me. If you have a project you’re working on that we can do as a team exercise, we can do this instead!

Lecture 7 Proportionality Conversation/Research

One of the challenges people face is the many ways you can visualize certain kinds of data. The most common is proportionality (everyone goes right to the pie chart!) In this short talk, we discuss other ways to visualize proportionality and I share some research that is relevant.

Lecture 8 Tools

By the end of the day, if not sooner, people are starting to feel they can do the conceptual work and want to learn more about what tools they can use. I talk about the many categories of tools available and briefly demo a couple of them. But this is a very high level overview of an endless abyss of information!

Reviews

7 Reviews

Will B

May, 2017

A very impressive and innovative course for peopele like me to improve ability to communicate effectively with data. This course helped me expanding my knowledge of thinking about an audience and package up my data to directly with them. In the interactive participation of the workshop, I could lern many things about data and communication with it from the participants too. I stand gained many communicative skills from this workshop, though I had no analytic skills. Thanks to the instructor for his innovative way of turoring. The data communications project was very interesting and thought provoking.

Salvatore A

May, 2017

This is an inspiring course. It definitely helped me to start feeling that I can do the conceptual work and want to learn more about what tools I can use. The instructor was friendly and professional.

Victor L

May, 2017

This is a very helpful course to concretise my communication skills and many ways to visualize certain kinds of data.

Kamaldeep S

July, 2017

It is a particularly remarkable and ingenious course. This program encourages understanding of data, and the way you explain your data is practically as important as the data itself. I really enjoyed the group setting as well.

Eran K

July, 2017

I gained many communication skills from this workshop. Thanks to the instructor for his ingenious style of training. The data communications project helps you fill gaps in your knowledge.

Lathendra U

July, 2017

This is a great course and helped me to regain my confidence in visual communications. An exciting course. It also helped me to begin thinking about how to present data and what tools I can present with.

Helen P

July, 2017

Very demanding class, but if you carry on you will know how to use the knowledge gained from this workshop. There's a lot of good material in this course and it's offered in a really satisfactory way.