A joint presentation made at the 2015 USAID Global Health Mini University, introducing key data visualization concepts and setting the stage for two interactive activities on storyboarding for data visualizations and visual best practices for graph and chart design.

1. 2 MARCH 2015
A DATA VIZ
MAKEOVER
APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING DATA VISUALIZATION
GLOBAL HEALTH MINI UNIVERSITY

2. WHO WE ARE
Simon Hiltebeitel
URC
Erica Nybro
DHS Program
Libby Skolnik
CCP
Amanda Makulec
JSI
Sid Deka
CCP

3. HOW WE
CONSUME
INFORMATION
HAS CHANGED

4. 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?

5. OUR ATTENTION SPAN IS SHRINKING
Humans
8 seconds
Goldfish
9 seconds<

6. 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

7. VISUALIZATION TO
MAKE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE
TELL A STORY
AMPLIFY YOUR REACH
WHY

8. VISUALIZATION TO
PROMOTE DATA USE
WHY

9. TELLING YOUR
DATA STORY

10. THE VISUALIZATION PROCESS
IDENTIFY YOUR
AUDIENCE &
CONTEXT
FIND THE STORY
IN YOUR DATA
BUILD YOUR
VISUALIZATION
DISSEMINATE,
SHARE & USE

11. IDENTIFY YOUR AUDIENCE AND CONTEXT
AUDIENCE
WHO ARE YOU TRYING
TO REACH?

12. FIND THE STORY IN YOUR DATA
DATA
WHAT INFORMATION DO
YOU HAVE TO SHARE?

13. BUILD YOUR VISUALIZATION
CREATE
HOW DO YOU WANT TO
ILLUSTRATE YOUR
DATA STORY?

14. TODAY’S
ACTIVITY

15. WHAT WE’VE GIVEN YOU
A fact sheet with
data & story points

16. 1 2
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?

17. GROUP 1
1
Want to learn
about visual
best practices
for making
charts and
graphs?

18. GROUP 2
2
Want to learn
about how to use
storyboarding
approaches to
design data viz
with a team?

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