MISM 6410 — Information Visuals and Dashboards for Business
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: falltypical days: T/ThOakland, CATraditional
Introduces design principles for creating meaningful displays of information to support effective business decision making. Focuses on how the brain perceives preattentive attributes used by all visualizations; creating interactive visualizations; and using visualizations to demonstrate or provide insight into a problem, situation, or phenomenon. Introduces methods to critique visualizations along with ways to identify design principles that make good visualizations effective. Discusses the challenges of making data understandable across a wide range of audiences. Topics include several ways to use color in data visualization; preattentive attributes; lie factors; data density; the components of effectiveness in data visualization (accuracy, separability, discriminability, and popout); how to design dashboards; the differences between dashboards and infographics; maps; typography; deceptive visualizations; and data storytelling.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 40% | 9.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 100% · W 0% · Th 100% · F 0%
Common patterns: TR (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Kevin Cooney (100% of students) · reviews
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Links
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