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A Pixar Twist on Presenting Data
The document focuses on using storytelling principles, particularly those from Pixar, to enhance visual data presentations. It emphasizes understanding the audience's motivations and engaging them through structured narratives and effective visualization techniques. Key recommendations include decluttering visuals, using color sparingly, and purposeful titling to improve data interpretation and impact.
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A Pixar Twist on Presenting Data
- 1. A Pixar Twiston Presenting Data Amanda Makulec with invaluable input from Michelle Samplin-Salgado
- 2. Amanda Makulec, MPH VisualAnalytics Advisor John Snow, Inc.
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- 7. take your audience on ajourney
- 9. the Pixar storyarc Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. From: http://www.pixartouchbook.com/blog/2011/5/15/pixar-story-rules-one-version.html
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- 11. Task #1 Pick anidea you want to work with for the next hour.
- 12. Let’s talk about thescience behind stories.
- 13. It starts in yourbrain.
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- 20. Task #2 Who will youshare that idea with?
- 21. Name your audience What kindsof stories would resonate? What questions would they ask? What action do you want them to take?
- 22. Let’s talk about greatstories.
- 23. What stories do youremember?
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- 25. Themes from GreatStories
- 26. COMING OF AGE Youhave arrived. Shows experience and demonstrates strengths
- 27. CONSTANT EVOLUTION You’re alwayschanging and growing. Shows adapatibility.
- 28. TRUE AS ITEVER WAS You remain true to yourself and your core values. Shows steadiness and helps to reinforce trust.
- 29. OVERCOME OBSTACLES There werechallenges but you came out ahead Shows resilience
- 30. REBIRTH You’ve grown, changed,reinvented yourself. Shows new hope, direction, and promise.
- 31. THE QUEST It’s beenquite the journey.You’ve remained true to you. Shows commitment and dedication.
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- 34. Image credit: DavidMacCandless, Knowledge is Beautiful explicit (implicit) visualization (art of design) Structuring visual elements information (art of journalism) structuring information
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- 37. Task #3 Map outyour key story points: data stories, characters, a point of view (if you like).
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- 39. conceptual data driven declarative exploratory ideaillustration everyday data viz idea generation visual discovery Matrix credit: Harvard Business Review’s Good Charts
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- 61. Tree Map 0% 20%40% 60% 80% 100% Icon Matrix part-to-whole better 839 294 145 50 Small Multiples Chart Horizontal Stacked Bar
- 62. View & ordera copy at http://policyviz.com/graphic-continuum/ chart type quick reference
- 63. three things to improveevery chart
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- 78. 0 10 20 30 40 50 Facility 1 Facility2 Facility 3 Facility 4 Facility 5 Facility 6 Facility 7 Facility 8 Health workers at Facility 4 showed the highest proficiency in using data for decisionmaking.
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- 81. Harness your innerchild
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- 93. combine visuals 83%of nursesin our program used the mobile app
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- 99. Simple LESS IS MORE whitespace is nice
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- 101. no more than2 fonts
- 102. You can varythe SIZE width kear ning to create visual interest and hierarchy
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- 106. favorite things Graphic Continuum Dotplots Icon matrix Canva Piktochart Noun Project Pexels Slidedocs
- 107. duarte.com // storycorps.org// skillshare.com storytelling recs
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- 109. For more informationabout JSI’s work in visual analytics and data use, contact the JSI Center for Health Information,Monitoring & Evaluation CHIME@jsi.com Follow @jsihealth Amanda Makulec John Snow Inc. amanda_makulec@jsi.com @abmakulec