1st Pop-up Class in NYUShanghai's ideaLab

Last Wednesday and Thursday, Kristen Sosulski, professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, led the first pop-up class in the NYU Shanghai Program on Creativity and Innovation.  Teaching in the new LiveLab (Room 900), Professor Sosulski took a group of 20 or so students through some of the fundamentals of data visualization.  She showed the class a number of examples of effective ways of displaying data --- and also some ways not to display data!  Especially striking was seeing how apparently small differences in presenting the same data can have a very big effect on what audiences are able to absorb.  In the last part of the class, the students worked in real time with an in-class dataset to practice creating effective visuals.  Alex Yu '19, one of NYU Shanghai's students, summed it up the value of the class, saying "I think data visualization helps us view the world in a more vivid and dynamic way, Professor Sosulki's pop-up class taught not just data visualization concepts, but how to actually dig deeper into and view data from innovative prospectives."