2 MARCH 2015

A DATA VIZMAKEOVER

APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING DATA VISUALIZATION

GLOBAL HEALTH MINI UNIVERSITY

WHO WE ARE

Simon Hiltebeitel

URCErica Nybro

DHS Program

Libby Skolnik

CCP

Amanda Makulec

JSISid Deka

CCP

HOW WE CONSUME INFORMATIONHAS CHANGED

HOW WE CONSUME INFORMATION

1.When was the last

time you settled into a

chair in your office to

read through a long,

printed report?

2.When was the last

time you clicked through

a link to an infographic in

your email to find out

about results?

OUR ATTENTION SPAN IS SHRINKING

Humans8 seconds

Goldfish9 seconds<

THE VOLUME OF INFORMATION GROWS

“As a global community, we write and post some 3.6 trillion words to the internet every day—that’s roughly equal to the contents of the entire Library of Congress.”Clive Thompson, Wired

Clive Thompson

Wired Magazine

VISUALIZATION TO MAKE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE

TELL A STORY

AMPLIFY YOUR REACH

WHY

VISUALIZATION TO PROMOTE DATA USE

WHY

TELLING YOUR DATA STORY

THE VISUALIZATION PROCESS

IDENTIFY YOUR

AUDIENCE &

CONTEXT

FIND THE STORY

IN YOUR DATA

BUILD YOUR

VISUALIZATION

DISSEMINATE,

SHARE & USE

IDENTIFY YOUR AUDIENCE AND CONTEXT

AUDIENCEWHO ARE YOU TRYING

TO REACH?

FIND THE STORY IN YOUR DATA

DATAWHAT INFORMATION DO

YOU HAVE TO SHARE?

BUILD YOUR VISUALIZATION

CREATEHOW DO YOU WANT TO

ILLUSTRATE YOUR

DATA STORY?

TODAY’SACTIVITY

WHAT WE’VE GIVEN YOU

A fact sheet with

data & story points

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YOUR CHOICE OF ACTIVITIES

Want to learn

about visual

best practices

for making

charts and

graphs?

Want to learn

about how to use

storyboarding

approaches to

design data viz

with a team?

GROUP 1

1Want to learn

about visual

best practices

for making

charts and

graphs?

GROUP 2

2Want to learn

about how to use

storyboarding

approaches to

design data viz

with a team?

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