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QBUS5010: Intro to Dashboarding and Data Visualisation
2025 unit information
Dashboards are digestible and real-time visualisation systems, which can produce valuable insights about business processes. These dashboards may even form a core component of future business processes and decision making. Creating such visualisations is a challenging task requiring the creator to have wide ranging knowledge and skills in such fields as user experience design, statistics, visualisation, databases, web technologies and programming. This unit aims to equip students with a working knowledge of dashboard systems. Students learn how dashboards systems work, how they are built and to analyse dashboard designs using principles of visual analytics.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Business Analytics |
| Credit points | 6 |
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The unit does not assume any prior knowledge of visual analytics. |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Students will be able to distinguish between visualisations and dashboards as well as utilise dashboards by converting visualisations to dashboards and replicating existing dashboards
- LO2. Students will be able to differentiate between different principles of dashboard building as well as to apply these principles to build dashboards themselves
- LO3. Students will be able to critically analyse dashboard designs using principles of visual analytics and make well-argued recommendations for improvement
- LO4. Students will be able to design dashboards using a range of visualisation types, statistical, and programming techniques
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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