Open course on infographics and data visualization at Knight Center

It is very pleasing that there are more and more sites with open courses. So to Coursera, Udacity and other sites added Knight Center for Journalism. On October 28, the Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization course starts there .

The course will be led by Alberto Cairo (Alberto Cairo), a well-known specialist in infographics. He has been teaching infographics for a long time and works at various media publishers. In August, his book The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization was published .

The course will be in English, no prior knowledge is required. Part of the course will focus on creating infographics using Adobe Illustrator.
You can read more about the course in English here and here..

You can register for the course here .
UPDATE: As they write in the comments, registration for the course is still closed.
UPDATE 2: 0xLGA writes that registration is now available for a second course, which will begin in January.

Video about the course: