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<v ->All right, hey, everybody.</v>

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Here we are at the first official real week of this class,

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and I'm excited to be with you here again.

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Hopefully, you had a chance to look at

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last week's information about data literacy,

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data analytics, and all the rest of that stuff.

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This class isn't meant to teach those skills,

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but hey we taught it a little bit,

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like I said we would.

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This week we start on the real curriculum, okay?

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And week number one is I wanna just orient your brains

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and your hearts, to be honest, towards communications.

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Maybe you're a biology graduate student,

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or you're in the GIS program and you work in a company

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as an engineer.

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I don't know who you all are or what your backgrounds are

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but I do know from past experience in this class,

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not a lot of communications students show up in this class.

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That's okay.

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For now, I would argue that you need

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to put your communications hat on.

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This class is called Data Visualization

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and Communications, right?

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That it's about how do we communicate with data.

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So, this week is gonna be all about getting you to think

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like a communicator, okay?

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To think about essentially,

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why are we here talking about this stuff,

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how do we orient our minds to be communicators of,

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yes, this important data, this important information

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that we have gathered, collected, researched, whatever,

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and then how do we start to orient ourselves

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into the mode of presenting that information

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for an audience?

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So, we're just getting started here.

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So, join me as we go through this week's lessons

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and I can't wait to do all of this with you all

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for the next eight weeks together.