
MICRO-CREDENTIALING WORKSHOPS
The courses, tailored to professionals in the public and nonprofit sectors, train professionals to stay on top of critical new skills that can immediately be integrated into their workplaces.
Participants will receive an entire workday of in-person instruction, interactive engagement, and case application from Andrew Young School faculty on Georgia State University’s Atlanta campus. The cost is $50 per workshop, and upon successful completion, participants will earn a badge for each session. Stacking three badges allows micro-credentials to be applied toward prior learning credit in the Department of Public Management and Policy’s master-level certificate or degree programs.
We welcome participants serving in federal, state, and local government, nonprofit organizations, and those seeking career opportunities in these areas. We especially welcome current and aspiring professionals in management, communications, data analysis, and evaluation positions.

Mapping Solutions to Public Problems

Data Visualization for a Public Audience
Make data meaningful through storytelling. Design better charts, graphs, interactives, and dashboards by learning foundational graphic design principles and the universal grammar of data-based graphics.
Session I: Feb. 28, 2025
Session II: March 28, 2025
Session III: April 25, 2025
GIS Primer: An Introduction to the Fundamentals
- Learn how to use ArcGIS Pro Interface
- Import, organize, and manage geospatial data
- Explore commonly used geospatial data types and their applications
- No prior experience necessary
Spatial Data Management and Visualization
- Create clear, easy to understand, professional map layouts
- Apply colors, symbols, and various design techniques to meaningfully represent mapped data
- Practice basic spatial analysis techniques to solve real world problems
Advanced Spatial Analysis
- Build skills with grid-based data structures
- Use mapping tools to uncover spatial patterns, relationships, and trends in data
- Apply mapping techniques across open-source platforms
Session I: Sept 20, 2024
Session II: Oct 11, 2024
Session III: Nov 15, 2024
Truth and Beauty with Data in R: An Introduction to the Tools
- Learn how to use R and the tidyverse to load, manipulate, and plot data
- Become familiar with the grammar of graphics—a new way to talk about data-based graphs
- Discover core graphic design principles that you can apply to any designed document
- No prior coding experience is necessary
Visualizing Data in R: Core Applications
- Learn best practices for visualizing amounts, proportions, uncertainty, comparisons, and relationships.
- Discover best practices for styling and annotating data-based graphics
- A basic understanding of R and ggplot2 is required/highly recommended
Visualizing Data in R: Extensions, Time, Space, and Text
- Make interactive plots and dashboards
- Visualize trends in data over time
- Make maps and conduct basic geographic information systems (GIS) analysis
- Learn the best ways to visualize text and qualitative data
- A basic understanding of R and ggplot2 is required/highly recommended