Abstract: To address the difficulties in the talent cultivation of the specialty of big data technology and therelevant specialties in higher vocational education, we propose a project-oriented teaching mode of ideological and political education based on the course content and course objectives of the data visualizationcourse. With the guidance of talent cultivation program and the analysis of leaming situation as the startingpoint, we explore the elements of cunriculum-based ideological and political education in tems of the ob-jectives, professional content and curriculum characteristies, and then describe the overall design of curriculum-based ideological and political education. Additionally, we explain how the four teaching methodsused contribute to the achievement of the training target of curriculum-based ideological and political edu-cation. Finally, one of the chapters in the course is used as case study to introduce the process of teachingpractice and summarize the elfectiveness of ideological and political teaching in the course. Practice hasproved that the integration of ideological and political elements into professional courses has the effect ofbeing “easy to understand”, “hands-on”, “interaction motivating” and “critical thinking promoting”.

Key words: data visualization, curriculum-based ideological and political education, project-based teach-ing