During the past decade, digital transformation enabled by big data and analytics emerged as a key theme in the business world. It promises to continue be a theme of major importance in the 2020s. Digital transformation comes at the cost of grappling with and analyzing the ever-growing volume of data. Data visualization techniques are seen as a main solution for dealing with this immense data growth. Finding talent with the skills and knowledge to glean analytics insights is one of the critical issues in organizations. Given the talent gap, there is a growing call for most employees in organizations to adopt self-service analytics and enforce a data driven culture. In addition to meeting industry demands for analytics skills, institutions of higher education must strive to expose all students to analytics. This would enable organizations to operate as data driven decision making entities by making analytics pervasive through the organization. Educators tasked with teaching the introductory IS course have an opportunity to help in this organizations in this mission by exposing all undergraduate students to analytics curriculum early in their educational career. The addition of data visual analytics curriculum to the introductory information systems course would give all students an interesting hands-on experience with analytics that would help them appreciate analytics and also potentially prompt them to incorporate analytics into their program of study.