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Data visualisation, maps and honest interactive stories

With Shane Rounce

I teach data visualisation, maps and honest interactive stories through a practical project, worked examples and checks that another person can repeat. This is a complete course plan; lesson recordings, workbooks and delivery are still to be produced.

4 weeks16 learning hoursSelf-paced

I’m developing this course as part of Learn Courses. This is the full teaching plan, ready to review before I produce the lessons and open enrolment.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

Who I’m building this for

Designers, editors and frontend developers.

Before you begin

A computer with a current browser and permission to use the project material.
Basic familiarity with the subject and the ability to prepare and share a small digital project.
No client records, credentials or production changes are needed for the exercises.

PROPOSED COURSE FEE

£99

Provisional planning figure, not an approved price or an offer for sale. I have assumed reusable self-paced lessons and bounded support. Production effort, access period, assessment support and tax treatment need confirming before sale.

Planning price only. Enrolment is closed and no payment is taken.

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The sample is fictional. It is separate from this course’s future lessons.

A PRACTICAL NEXT STEP

What you’ll be able to do

Choose a permitted public or invented dataset and define units, uncertainty and audience.
Compare chart, map and simple diagram alternatives without decorative distortion.
Implement filters with visible definitions, missing values and accessible text.
Publish source notes, limitations and an alternative table alongside the prototype.

THE TEACHING PLAN

Your next 4 weeks

A clear route through the subject, with something to make, test or reflect on at every stage.

MODULE 1

Start with a question

I explain the decisions behind start with a question using worked examples, a deliberately broken case and a corrected version. The lesson distinguishes what the evidence establishes from what still needs checking.

Your practical activity: Choose a permitted public or invented dataset and define units, uncertainty and audience.
How I’ll check your understanding: Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note for module 1: choose a permitted public or invented dataset and define units, uncertainty and audience. Include the initial state, the chosen change, a meaningful failure case and the result of the check. I review whether the evidence supports the conclusion and return specific revisions where it does not.

MODULE 2

Choose the useful visual form

I explain the decisions behind choose the useful visual form using worked examples, a deliberately broken case and a corrected version. The lesson distinguishes what the evidence establishes from what still needs checking.

Your practical activity: Compare chart, map and simple diagram alternatives without decorative distortion.
How I’ll check your understanding: Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note for module 2: compare chart, map and simple diagram alternatives without decorative distortion. Include the initial state, the chosen change, a meaningful failure case and the result of the check. I review whether the evidence supports the conclusion and return specific revisions where it does not.

MODULE 3

Build an inspectable interaction

I explain the decisions behind build an inspectable interaction using worked examples, a deliberately broken case and a corrected version. The lesson distinguishes what the evidence establishes from what still needs checking.

Your practical activity: Implement filters with visible definitions, missing values and accessible text.
How I’ll check your understanding: Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note for module 3: implement filters with visible definitions, missing values and accessible text. Include the initial state, the chosen change, a meaningful failure case and the result of the check. I review whether the evidence supports the conclusion and return specific revisions where it does not.

MODULE 4

Explain what the visual proves

I explain the decisions behind explain what the visual proves using worked examples, a deliberately broken case and a corrected version. The lesson distinguishes what the evidence establishes from what still needs checking.

Your practical activity: Publish source notes, limitations and an alternative table alongside the prototype.
How I’ll check your understanding: Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note for module 4: publish source notes, limitations and an alternative table alongside the prototype. Include the initial state, the chosen change, a meaningful failure case and the result of the check. I review whether the evidence supports the conclusion and return specific revisions where it does not.

PUT IT INTO PRACTICE

Your final project

Build and document a complete practical project for data visualisation, maps and honest interactive stories. Use an invented organisation or an expressly permitted personal project, join the four module artefacts into one coherent result and demonstrate a normal journey, a failure state and a recovery or revision.

What you’ll produce

Module 1 artefact: Choose a permitted public or invented dataset and define units, uncertainty and audience.
Module 2 artefact: Compare chart, map and simple diagram alternatives without decorative distortion.
Module 3 artefact: Implement filters with visible definitions, missing values and accessible text.
Module 4 artefact: Publish source notes, limitations and an alternative table alongside the prototype.
A concise project brief, source and rights record, evidence log and handover with known limitations.

What good work looks like

Start with a question: 20 marks for a correct artefact, justified decisions and repeatable evidence.
Choose the useful visual form: 20 marks for a correct artefact, justified decisions and repeatable evidence.
Build an inspectable interaction: 20 marks for a correct artefact, justified decisions and repeatable evidence.
Explain what the visual proves: 20 marks for a correct artefact, justified decisions and repeatable evidence.
Integration and handover: 20 marks for a coherent project, source acknowledgement, appropriate access and a clear explanation of remaining limits. Pass requires at least 70/100 and correction of any privacy, access or destructive-operation defect before completion.

Resources for your learning

A worked example and a deliberately broken fixture for start with a question.
A worked example and a deliberately broken fixture for choose the useful visual form.
A worked example and a deliberately broken fixture for build an inspectable interaction.
A worked example and a deliberately broken fixture for explain what the visual proves.
A data visualisation, maps and honest interactive stories workbook with evidence prompts and the capstone marking sheet.
A transcript, caption file and text-first lesson version for every recording.
A downloadable source-and-rights checklist and a sample completed project handover.

A course you can access

Provide edited captions, transcripts and a text-first route through every lesson.
Use keyboard-operable exercises, visible focus, legible contrast and no essential autoplay or motion.
Supply downloadable instructions and low-bandwidth alternatives; avoid timed assessment as a default.
Offer equivalent written evidence where live attendance or spoken presentation is a barrier and document support before enrolment.

FINISH WITH SOMETHING USEFUL

How you’ll complete the course

Submit all four module artefacts and respond to assessment feedback.
Complete the capstone at 70/100 or above with no unresolved access, privacy or destructive-operation defect.
Explain a meaningful failure case and the limits of the result in the evidence log.
Completion records describe assessed participation; I am not claiming external accreditation.

Completion will describe the work you have done. No external accreditation or professional qualification is claimed.

BEFORE I OPEN ENROLMENT

What I still need to finish

I’ll turn this plan into a delivered course once the teaching material and the learning service are ready.

Produce and editorially review the four lessons, worked examples, broken fixtures and marking guidance for data visualisation, maps and honest interactive stories.
Build and test the course-specific workbook and capstone reference project using synthetic or permitted material.
Pilot the complete learner journey, including mobile, keyboard, captions, assessment feedback and recovery from interrupted access.
Approve the actual price, tax treatment, refund terms, access period, support boundaries and any cohort dates before accepting payment.
Implement and test authentication, server-side paid entitlements, webhook reconciliation, private asset access and tenant isolation before unlocking paid lessons.
Confirm tutor availability, feedback turnaround, moderation responsibilities and capacity before advertising tutor-led support.
Review source licences, sample rights and current official technical guidance before recording or publishing the material.

The ideas behind the course

My published articles are background reading for this plan. The full lessons, activities and assessment material still need producing.

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