Are you a UVic student or Staff member and want to learn more about data visualization and mapping?
If so, then this hands-on workshop will give you an introduction. Once you’ve completed
this session you will be able to do or be aware of the following:

• The use cases & visualization styles possible
• Why “cleaning” data is necessary & clean it a Google Sheet or Excel Spreadsheet
• Best practices for sentiment analysis & do some sentiment analysis
• Create a Google Sheets bar graph
• Create a Google Sheets pie chart
• Create a Google Sheets bubble chart mapping 3 data points
• Create a Fusion Table point map
• Create a Fusion Table heat map
• Create a Fusion Table network chart
• Create filters for Fusion Table Visualizations
• Find open data online
• Collaborative data gathering
• Know how to publish visualization and/or tables to the web. And collaborate with others
• Storymap JS 
• Timeline JS
• Juxtapose JS
• Awareness of other more advanced tools like Tableau, QGIS, & ARC-GIS

Before attending the orientation, please watch the short instructional videos, and take the pre-workshop quiz, so that you can be prepared for the hands-on exercises during the orientation (this will take less than 30 minutes):

• Fusion Tables Overview (5 min) – https://youtu.be/pRqAJwL6_3s?t=45s
• Data Cleaning (2 min) – https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module11/#/id/co-01
• Sentiment Analysis (3 min) – http://growingsocialmedia.com/human-sentiment-analysis/
• StoryMap JS (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgleg4deDZM
• Timeline JS (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWbm4gF9lU
• Juxtapose JS (3 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8pCT32j7s
• Google Sheets Charting (12 min) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLVYQGKSLg
• Setup a Google or Gmail account if you don’t have one already – https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?hl=en
• Pre-Class Quiz: https://goo.gl/DS7Nfh