MISM6410 (Information Visuals and Dashboards for Business) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Introduces design principles for creating meaningful displays of information to support effective business decision making. Focuses on how the brain perceives preattentive attributes used by all visualizations; creating interactive visualizations; and using visualizations to demonstrate or provide insight into a problem, situation, or phenomenon. Introduces methods to critique visualizations along with ways to identify design principles that make good visualizations effective. Discusses the challenges of making data understandable across a wide range of audiences. Topics include several ways to use color in data visualization; preattentive attributes; lie factors; data density; the components of effectiveness in data visualization (accuracy, separability, discriminability, and popout); how to design dashboards; the differences between dashboards and infographics; maps; typography; deceptive visualizations; and data storytelling.
Data updated October 2026.