-: All right, hey, everybody.
Here we are at the first official real week of this class,
and I'm excited to be with you here again.
Hopefully, you had a chance to look at
last week's information about data literacy,
data analytics, and all the rest of that stuff.
This class isn't meant to teach those skills,
but hey we taught it a little bit,
like I said we would.
This week we start on the real curriculum, okay?
And week number one is I wanna just orient your brains
and your hearts, to be honest, towards communications.
Maybe you're a biology graduate student,
or you're in the GIS program and you work in a company
as an engineer.
I don't know who you all are or what your backgrounds are
but I do know from past experience in this class,
not a lot of communications students show up in this class.
That's okay.
For now, I would argue that you need
to put your communications hat on.
This class is called Data Visualization
and Communications, right?
That it's about how do we communicate with data.
So, this week is gonna be all about getting you to think
like a communicator, okay?
To think about essentially,
why are we here talking about this stuff,
how do we orient our minds to be communicators of,
yes, this important data, this important information
that we have gathered, collected, researched, whatever,
and then how do we start to orient ourselves
into the mode of presenting that information
for an audience?
So, we're just getting started here.
So, join me as we go through this week's lessons
and I can't wait to do all of this with you all
for the next eight weeks together.