Thanks to the increasing amount of valuable data in every corner of our society, the visualization industry is growing rapidly and visual business intelligence is becoming a crucial skill for knowledge workers. Effective analysis of data through visualization will become more and more crucial because it is almost impossible to understand big, messy data without any visual aid. This course will explore effective ways of consuming business data by looking back at the history of visualization, by analyzing and criticizing existing visualizations, and by applying our own visualization with data from business cases or a research problem.