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Game Design: Art and Concepts
Stemming from the principles of storytelling and design established in CalArts’ renowned Animation programs, this Specialization lays a primary foundation for experimentation and exploration of video game design, story, character development, and winning gameplay before programming begins. These four courses emphasize the self-reliance and personal expression of the gaming artist, and encourage you to take conceptual risks and develop new modes of expression and form through gaming.
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Writing in First Person Point of View
If you have always wanted to tell your own story—in a memoir, first-person essay, or any other form of autobiographical non-fiction—but felt you lacked the tools or the framework, this is the class for you. We will learn how successful first-person writing is structured to offer the reader a sense of propulsive motion, and is guided by a narrator who is deliberately crafted. We will explore the ways in which language can be used to create tone, so that the emotional freight of your words is as potent as the storytelling.
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6 hours
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Data Storytelling
This course will cover the more complex concepts that become involved when working beyond simple datasets. Exploring the connection between visual aspects and data understanding, we will examine how those concepts work together through data storytelling. After reviewing key points on how to avoid problematic visualizations and data misrepresentation, you will continue working in Tableau performing multivariate descriptive analysis of the S&P 500 stock sectors.
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9 hours
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Leadership and Disruption
This course is fully focused on developing your new leadership skills. It was developed with the best models and based on best practices in the corporate world. Its content is current and practical, and updated with the latest in remote leadership, especially after the radical and disruptive changes that the world has had since the global pandemic. As an interactive participant in this course, you’ll learn how to make effectively integrate the 3 elements of successful leadership, the LAB model: Learn, Apply and Benefit.
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16 hours
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Data Science Methodology
If there is a shortcut to becoming a Data Scientist, then learning to think and work like a successful Data Scientist is it. In this course, you will learn and then apply this methodology that you can use to tackle any Data Science scenario. You’ll explore two notable data science methodologies, Foundational Data Science Methodology, and the six-stage CRISP-DM data science methodology, and learn how to apply these data science methodologies.
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15 hours
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Go Beyond the Numbers: Translate Data into Insights
This is the third of seven courses in the Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll learn how to find the story within data and tell that story in a compelling way. You'll discover how data professionals use storytelling to better understand their data and communicate key insights to teammates and stakeholders. You'll also practice exploratory data analysis and learn how to create effective data visualizations.
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33 hours
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Data Visualization with Python
In today's data-driven world, the ability to create compelling visualizations and tell impactful stories with data is a crucial skill. This comprehensive course will guide you through the process of visualization using coding tools with Python, spreadsheets, and BI (Business Intelligence) tooling.
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3 hours
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Neuroscience of Leadership: Leading with Your Brain
This course examines leadership techniques through the lens of social cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Utilizing the latest research, we develop a leadership practice based on neuroscience. Consideration for leading oneself, leading others and leading organizations is covered.
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Organizational Leadership
Equip yourself to successfully lead organizations through clarity of purpose and effective collaboration — by building and motivating teams; designing and delivering powerful stories; developing strategies to appropriately influence; understanding underlying customer analytics and applying innovative approaches to deliver impact. How do aspiring managers succeed in an ever-changing business environment? How do they lead different groups to action?
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Business Analytics
Nowadays data is essential in the business environment to be gain a global view of an organization's situation and to be able to make better decisions. Against this background, Big Data is a booming sector in multiple areas that opens up different job opportunities, such as the role of Data Analyst. This course is an introduction to data analytics from a business perspective, focusing on the relevance of basing strategic decision-making on the knowledge provided by data.
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Use Tableau for Your Data Science Workflow
Learn Tableau fundamentals, advanced visualizations, and integration with data science tools. Elevate your skills in creating impactful dashboards. Enroll now for hands-on experience and master the art of data storytelling. Unlock the potential for advanced analytics, exploring correlations and trends within your data. Build interactive dashboards that tell compelling data stories, utilizing filters, parameters, and actions for user engagement. Uplift your expertise with advanced visualizations, mastering heatmaps, tree maps, and geographical mapping.
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The Art of Visual Storytelling
The ability to shoot and edit video is rapidly becoming a sought after skill. Many businesses seek people who can bring more than just a single skill to the table, and video creation can be a key one. In this hands-on specialization, you will do more than just understand the concept of creating a professional video, you will actually produce one for your portfolio! Component courses are broken down into the Stages of Video Production: Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production. In Pre-Production, you will learn how to generate ideas, write proposals, scripts, and draw storyboards.
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Microsoft Power BI Desktop - The Practical Bootcamp
✓ Master Power BI Desktop from end-to-end ✓ Create impressive reports with Power BI ✓ Work professionally with Power BI Microsoft Power BI Desktop is the perfect tool for creating impressive reports, and this course will teach you everything you need to know to become an advanced report creator.
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9 hours
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Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print
This course expands the definition of the “book” to include scrolls and albums, focusing on the reading experience of a variety of formats in Japan. You will begin by examining rare and beautifully preserved manuscripts in the Harvard Art Museums in an introduction exploring the material properties of Japanese books and scrolls, binding techniques, and important terminology. An examination of the illustrated scroll comes next, through a unit on the short story and visual storytelling in premodern Japan.
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36
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Data Visualization with Tableau
Dive deep into the compelling world of data visualization with this beginner-friendly course, illuminating the art of transforming data into insightful visuals using Tableau. Arranged in four comprehensive modules, this course outlines a clear learning trajectory, transitioning from foundational concepts to advanced visualization techniques. In the initial module, the focus is on grasping the essentials of Tableau, the cornerstone of effective data visualization.
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Storytelling / Re-brand your Brand
In this fascinating online course you will be able to explain the concept of storytelling, how can be used on any organization or personal brand. Also, you will acquire the tools to create brand stories through traditional and new media communication channels. By taking this course, you will be able to critically evaluate the utilization of narrative strategies across different sectors and genres and apply a storytelling method to a practical project. To succeed in this course, you should be a professional with at least 2-3 years of experience in an organizational setting.
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14 hours
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Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance
The ability to influence without force or coercion is important in any organization and at all levels. Modern managers must master the art of persuasive communication, adapt to the needs of the audience, construct a good narrative and inspire the audience to act (Communicate with Impact). They must learn to design and negotiate both informal and complex agreements, and do this in diverse workplace cultures (Negotiate and Resolve Conflict). The Specialization applies influencing methods in two areas of great importance: change management and risk governance.
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Story and Narrative Development for Video Games
In this course, you will examine how storytelling acts as a vital mechanism for driving video gameplay forward. Looking at several historical and contemporary games, you will be asked to evaluate and interpret different story styles with the goal of identifying themes and procedures for your own game ideas. We'll examine traditional narrative story processes, such as three-act structure, and how they fit into game story flows and the strategic elements of gameplay. Ultimately, you will learn how to define character, setting, and structure to create a compelling game concept.
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12 hours
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Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World
This course prepares you to effectively participate in a connected world. Metaliteracy advances reflective and empowered learning in collaborative communities. You will learn how to creatively and ethically produce and share information. As a metaliterate learner, you will see yourself as an informed content creator and a responsible contributor to information environments. Metaliteracy is empowering because it encourages individuals to be reflective and to take charge of their learning.
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4 hours
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Data Visualization & Storytelling in Python
Hello everyone and welcome to this new hands-on project on data visualization and storytelling in python. In this project, we will leverage 3 powerful libraries known as Seaborn, Matplotlib and Plotly to visualize data in an interactive way. This project is practical and directly applicable to many industries. You can add this project to your portfolio of projects which is essential for your next job interview.
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3 hours
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The Neuroscience of Leading High-Performance Teams
In a demanding business world, team performance matters. At a time in history when teams are less engaged and more unmotivated than ever before, this course we will help give you the competitive edge you are looking for. What if your teams were more motivated and engaged? What if we found a way to harness the primal power of storytelling to influence and collaborate with others? What if we created an environment of psychological safety and trust for the teams we lead?
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25 hours
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Stakeholder Outreach: Effective Communication of Complex Environmental Threats
Learn how to engage communities through powerful storytelling, data visualization, and persuasive presence to motivate action on complex environmental projects.
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Intro Course: Data Storytelling
Using existing spreadsheet and quantitative reasoning skills, learners will make their data tell a story. This course is ideal for learners who are just starting out in their careers, journalists looking to expand their skill set, and marketers looking to tell a story.
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36
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Applied Storytelling
In this interactive and dynamic course, you will learn how to establish and integrate the art of storytelling more powerfully into your career and everyday life.
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36
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The Craft of Storytelling
Tell captivating stories your audiences will love.
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80
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