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Turning Data Into Information: Visualization and Utilization

Turning Data Into Information: Visualization and Utilization Julia Heany, Sarah Hurd & Steve Ridini. Session Objectives. Participants will: • Learn tips and techniques for presenting data in a way that is clear and informs decision making

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Turning Data Into Information: Visualization and Utilization

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  1. Turning Data Into Information: Visualization and Utilization Julia Heany, Sarah Hurd & Steve Ridini

  2. Session Objectives Participants will: • Learn tips and techniques for presenting data in a way that is clear and informs decision making • Gain practical insights regarding communicating with data from peers • Leave with new strategies for displaying data

  3. The Role of Data in Assessment & Improvement Planning

  4. Presenting data in the health assessment & improvement planning process Data are used throughout the assessment & improvement planning process: • Identify health problems • Understand health problems • Select priorities • Develop measurable objectives • Track change over time Data are published to communicate with a broad audience: • Community Health Profile • Health Improvement Plan • Community Health Needs Assessment

  5. Using Data Well Tips & Hints • Know your audience • Prioritize & organize • Tell a story • Communicate why ‘it’ is important • Use language that’s familiar – no acronyms, no fancy statistics talk • Show difference, show a reference point, show change • Be transparent about what numbers do and don’t mean • Boil it down to the bullet points • Ask for feedback

  6. Displaying Data Well Tips & Hints • Label charts, graphs, & tables clearly & comprehensively • Select familiar visuals & keep them simple • Avoid crowding • Order your data • Attend to scaling • Use visual cues to help tell the story • Use text boxes to summarize main points • Use symbols to simplify • Be clear about sample size • Select shading or colors that will be easy to read in black and white • Provide reference points, when applicable • Check the data, then check it again

  7. Label charts, graphs, & tables clearly & comprehensively

  8. Select familiar visuals & keep them simple: Not Simple

  9. Select familiar visuals & keep them simple: Simple

  10. Select familiar visuals & keep them simple: Simple

  11. Avoid crowding

  12. Avoid crowding

  13. Use visual cues to help tell the story

  14. Provide reference points, when applicable

  15. Provide reference points, when applicable

  16. Provide reference points, when applicable

  17. Kansas Health Institute: Using Data in Community Health Assessment

  18. Health Resources in Action: Using Data in Community Health Improvement Planning

  19. Discussion

  20. Resources For More on Displaying Data • www.naccho.org/chachipresources • www.naccho.org/mapp • www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/cancerlibrary/MDT-Workbook.pdf

  21. Presenter Contact Information Julia Heany, Ph.D. Michigan Public Health Institute jheany@mphi.org Sarah Hurd, M.S. Kansas Health Institute shurd@khi.org Steve Ridini, Ed.D.Health Resources in Action, Inc.sridini@hria.org

  22. Thank you!!!

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