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Data Visualization in Public Health

This document discusses data visualization and its importance in storytelling with data. It provides an overview of data visualization and its pivotal role in presentations. It outlines five golden rules for creating effective data visualizations: identify your purpose, know your data and audience, align content to purpose and audience, structure your story, and use basic and easy to understand chart types. The document also provides examples of commonly used visualization tools like Microsoft Excel and Power BI.

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Data Visualization in Public Health

This document discusses data visualization and its importance in storytelling with data. It provides an overview of data visualization and its pivotal role in presentations. It outlines five golden rules for creating effective data visualizations: identify your purpose, know your data and audience, align content to purpose and audience, structure your story, and use basic and easy to understand chart types. The document also provides examples of commonly used visualization tools like Microsoft Excel and Power BI.

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Data Visualization

Story Telling With Data


Shakeel Khan

Confidential and Proprietary


BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
CERTIFICATE (ECE)
Program Topics

• Data collection
• Data preprocessing
• Data storage
Shakeel Khan • Data queries
• Basic data mining
Adjunct Professor, Business Intelligence • Descriptive data analytics
Emory Continuing Education (ECE) • Data visualization, and results
presentation
Product Management Leader
IoT & Data Analytics Products
Overview

• Data Visualization – Pivotal Part of Presentation

• Golden Rules of Data Visualization

• Basic Charts

• Tools for Data Visualization


Data Visualization
Pivotal Part of Presentation
What is Data Visualization ?

Presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format


It’s Purpose ...

Visual tool for story telling using data for


effective communication, understanding and analysis
It’s Importance …

Large amount of data in functional and attractive format


Easy to Read

Human brain can easily understand visual vs numbers


Enables Decision Making

Decision makers can identify patterns and trends


Historic Use
Preventable Diseases

Wounds

Other Causes

Florence Nightingale’s famous chart highlighting deaths


from various causes
Historic Use

Dr John Snow’s most influential map (1854) to


understand how cholera was spreading
Current Use

JHU COVID-19 Live Dashboard


Current Use

COVID-19 Visualizer
Current Use

Map with gradient to show worst-affected areas in US


Current Use

Comparison of COVID-19 with other diseases


Current Use

Timeline and Impact of Pandemics


Current Use

Math Behind Social Distancing


Here is how distancing measures can control spread of COVID-19
5 Golden Rules
Creating Data Visualization
Identify Your Purpose
Increase

Public Health awareness

Public safety

Decrease

Mortality rate

Health risk
Know Your Data

Headlines

Spot Mistakes

Avoid (and recognize) bias

Basic Math
Know Your Audience

Organization Leaders

Managers

Policy Makers

General Public
Align Your Content to Purpose and Audience

Matrices

Charts

Geo-spatial

Statistics

Infographics
Structure Your Story

Themes

Hierarchy

Take Away

Call to Action
Basic Charts
Most used chart types
Easy to Understand Charts

Pie chart Area Chart


Bar chart Scatter Plot
Line Chart Bubble Chart
Pie chart

Show proportions and percentages between categories, by


dividing a circle into proportional segments
Bar chart

Show discrete, numerical comparisons across categories


Line chart

Display quantitative values over a continuous interval


or time period
Area chart

Line graph with the area below the line filled in with
a certain color
Scatter Plot

Display values from two variables


Bubble chart

Multi-variable graph that is a cross between


a Scatterplot and a Proportional Area Chart
Tools for Data Visualization
Self Service BI
Commonly Used Tools

MS Excel
Power BI
Tableau
Qlik
D3
High Chart
Using MS Excel
Using Power BI
Resources
http://datavizcatalogue.com/index.html

http://www.vizhealth.org

https://www.visualcapitalist.com

https://www.covidvisualizer.com

Excel

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/tables-charts-da893558-3b39-4e50-
af08-d05c50e0a8f7?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Power BI

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guided-learning/
Thank You

&

Stay Safe !!

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