This is a beginning course for statistics students. The focus of the course is on the fundamental principles and best practices for data manipulation and visualization. It covers two parts: First part will focus on basic concepts such as data types and data manipulation and query. The second part will focus on data visualization starting with the exploratory data analysis using various statistical plots. The data manipulation and visualization methods will be materialized in code using Tableau, Flourish and Python packages. Students will create their own data visualizations, and learn to use Open Source data visualization tools.