Thinking about how to communicate results from global health and development programs can be a challenge. By looking beyond long form, narrative, text reports, we can make our learning more accessible to wider audiences and promote the use of data for decision making by formatting our results in interesting, inviting ways. This deck includes a ideas, resources, and inspiration for great alternative reporting formats, including videos and SlideDocs.
Summary deck from our monthly JSI design-storm (design + brainstorm), highlighting the amazing templates and design features from Nancy Duarte's Slidedocs. The highlights features here only hit on a small section of her overall approach - check out the complete package at http://www.duarte.com/slidedocs
Understanding your audience and considering them in your design is essential for building great visualizations. This deck will walk you through the critical steps for identifying and understanding your audience, and developing a complex visualization storyboard to share your message.
A quick reference on designing data visualizations that delight and leverage best practices from the design world to ensure your data is presented in meaningful, usable, fun ways.
Data Visualization Design Best Practices WorkshopJSI
This introduction was presented as part of a workshop at the Measurement and Accountability for Results in Health Summit at the World Bank (June 2015). The workshop focused on simple ways anyone working with data can improve their presentations, and included visualization redesign activity to put these principles in practice.
Borrowing from the communications and media experts, storyboarding is one of my favorite approaches to work through a data visualization design with a team. First identify your audience & what your data story is, then map it out visually to come to a common understanding of what your team is designing.
August Designstorm: Alternative Reporting FormatsAmanda Makulec
Monthly brainstorm and idea sharing session at JSI around data visualization. The August deck focuses on alternative reporting formats and questions to think through to reach various audiences, including tools like interactive timelines, interactive graphics and dashboards (Tableau & others), scrolling/parallax webpages, and key design principles.
Building your own skills is one step in strengthening how you use visualization in your work, but fostering organizational change can be hard. Here are a few quick considerations on how to nurture data visualization as a personal skill and as an organizational value, and tips for successful collaborations on data visualization activities.
Originally presented as part of the HC3 Innovation Webinar Series on March 8, 2017.
Summary deck from our monthly JSI design-storm (design + brainstorm), highlighting the amazing templates and design features from Nancy Duarte's Slidedocs. The highlights features here only hit on a small section of her overall approach - check out the complete package at http://www.duarte.com/slidedocs
Understanding your audience and considering them in your design is essential for building great visualizations. This deck will walk you through the critical steps for identifying and understanding your audience, and developing a complex visualization storyboard to share your message.
A quick reference on designing data visualizations that delight and leverage best practices from the design world to ensure your data is presented in meaningful, usable, fun ways.
Data Visualization Design Best Practices WorkshopJSI
This introduction was presented as part of a workshop at the Measurement and Accountability for Results in Health Summit at the World Bank (June 2015). The workshop focused on simple ways anyone working with data can improve their presentations, and included visualization redesign activity to put these principles in practice.
Borrowing from the communications and media experts, storyboarding is one of my favorite approaches to work through a data visualization design with a team. First identify your audience & what your data story is, then map it out visually to come to a common understanding of what your team is designing.
August Designstorm: Alternative Reporting FormatsAmanda Makulec
Monthly brainstorm and idea sharing session at JSI around data visualization. The August deck focuses on alternative reporting formats and questions to think through to reach various audiences, including tools like interactive timelines, interactive graphics and dashboards (Tableau & others), scrolling/parallax webpages, and key design principles.
Building your own skills is one step in strengthening how you use visualization in your work, but fostering organizational change can be hard. Here are a few quick considerations on how to nurture data visualization as a personal skill and as an organizational value, and tips for successful collaborations on data visualization activities.
Originally presented as part of the HC3 Innovation Webinar Series on March 8, 2017.
Data visualization is about transforming numbers into knowledge, making information meaningful. I was one of 50 contributors to this free, Creative Commons licensed eBook, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to approach, develop, design, and publish great data visualizations.
Learn more about the project, interact with the eBook online, and get involved in future iterations at https://infoactive.co/data-design
How to Entertain audiences using data led content - Trend Report Spring 2015infogr8
In this seasons trend report, we open the lens to best practice campaigns from across the digital landscape whilst seeking opinions from the data visualisation community on the hot trends coming our way. Campaigns include airbnb, UNESCO, Virgin, IBM, Nike and some exploratory thinking on Tesla. Thought leading opinions from the likes of Alberto Cairo, Georgia Lupi, Andy Kirk.
Real-life Data Visualization - guest lecture for McGill INSY-442Mike Deutsch
Guest lecture given to McGill University undergrad class on Business Intelligence & Analytics, April 2014. Narrative: Data Visualization defined; What *good* visualization is; Visualization in business; a final Exercise in visualizing Higher Education Research data.
Data visualization trends in Business Intelligence: Allison Sapka at Analytic...Fitzgerald Analytics, Inc.
Allison Sapka's presentation at the Analytics and Data in Financial Services Meetup in Dec 2012. Alison discusses trends in Data Visualization, including why visualization is so powerful when implemented well, and confusing or misleading when done badly
Developing Dashboards with User-Centered DesignAmanda Makulec
Design sprint session hosted at the TechLady Hackathon, focused on the basic principles and techniques for starting a design process with who will use the data, rather than the tables and tools.
Lightning talk presented at MERL Tech 2018.
Often we think of dashboards as interactive reports instead of being digital products.
By rethinking our criteria of success for launching a new dashboard and borrowing from UX design, we can think more meaningfully about how we build dashboards stakeholders actually want to use.
First Firecat Friday presentation: tools, best practices and design insights we've put to work for organizations of all sizes to help groups and teams work on projects, share ideas, keep track of files, stay on top of tasks -- while feeling like a team.
Webinar: Communications Made Beautiful With Adobe - 2018-09-11TechSoup
When running a campaign for your nonprofit, it’s important to have consistency when it comes to branding and design. In this presentation, we’ll cover how you can use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to brighten up your collateral. You'll learn how to create consistency across brochures, social media posts, web banners, and any other relevant collateral. This is appropriate for those who are new to design and need a few tips and tricks to get started!
With the rate of innovation coming from Microsoft these days, many organizations are struggling to understand which tools and capabilities to use, and when to use them. The fact is: different teams work in different ways. Within the modern digital workplace, there are many different “modalities” of collaboration — and the companies that understand and meet the evolving needs of their end users will have a competitive advantage.
This presentation reprises a keynote presentation given at the European SharePoint Conference (Nov 2016) in Vienna, Austria by Office Server and Services MVPs Christian Buckley from Beezy and Benjamin Niaulin from Sharegate as they discuss real-world scenarios and management considerations of the three primary collaboration modalities: document and process-centric (SharePoint), email-centric (Exchange and Groups), and social-centric (Yammer, Skype for Business) -- and how Beezy can meet the various needs of these modalities.
Planning your Digital Workplace: A Systems-Based Planning ApproachChristian Buckley
When deploying a “Digital Workplace,” where do you begin? What is needed is an iterative, strategic, and systems-based approach of identifying core challenges at the team and company level, working with key stakeholders to identify appropriate strategies, building a solution using a scalable, repeatable, and sustainable change model. This approach drives stakeholder engagement, and ensures a more holistic solution that aligns with the needs of the business at every level. In this presentation, we walk through a systems-based planning approach for Enterprise Collaboration. Topics will include:
--Engaging leaders in a systems analysis, identifying high-priority needs and challenges
--Outlining a set of targeted and strategic actions based on common customer scenarios
--Developing an implementation plan to support successful operational and improvement strategies
The intent of this presentation is to help organizations incorporate systems-based planning into their Digital Workplace planning processes, using real-world customer examples, and to receive tips on how to fold these best practices into their own strategies.
The content experts at IQ want to help you turn data into easy-to-consume, shareable content. So we narrowed the process of infographic creation down to 5 simple steps.
Data science and the art of persuasionAlex Clapson
The presentation of data science to lay audiences—the last mile—hasn’t evolved as rapidly or as fully as the science’s technical part. It must catch up, and that means rethinking how data science teams are put together, how they’re managed, and who’s involved at every point in the process, from the first data stream to the final chart shown to the board. Until companies can successfully traverse that last mile, data science teams will under deliver. They will provide, in Willard Brinton’s words, foundations without cathedrals.
Data Visualization Resource Guide (September 2014)Amanda Makulec
A summary guide to data visualization design, including key design principles, great resources, and tools (listed by category with short explanations) that you can use to help design elegant, effective data visualizations that help share your message & promote the use of your information.
Note that the tools & resources highlighted are suggested, and inclusion should not be considered as an endorsement from JSI.
Data visualization is about transforming numbers into knowledge, making information meaningful. I was one of 50 contributors to this free, Creative Commons licensed eBook, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to approach, develop, design, and publish great data visualizations.
Learn more about the project, interact with the eBook online, and get involved in future iterations at https://infoactive.co/data-design
How to Entertain audiences using data led content - Trend Report Spring 2015infogr8
In this seasons trend report, we open the lens to best practice campaigns from across the digital landscape whilst seeking opinions from the data visualisation community on the hot trends coming our way. Campaigns include airbnb, UNESCO, Virgin, IBM, Nike and some exploratory thinking on Tesla. Thought leading opinions from the likes of Alberto Cairo, Georgia Lupi, Andy Kirk.
Real-life Data Visualization - guest lecture for McGill INSY-442Mike Deutsch
Guest lecture given to McGill University undergrad class on Business Intelligence & Analytics, April 2014. Narrative: Data Visualization defined; What *good* visualization is; Visualization in business; a final Exercise in visualizing Higher Education Research data.
Data visualization trends in Business Intelligence: Allison Sapka at Analytic...Fitzgerald Analytics, Inc.
Allison Sapka's presentation at the Analytics and Data in Financial Services Meetup in Dec 2012. Alison discusses trends in Data Visualization, including why visualization is so powerful when implemented well, and confusing or misleading when done badly
Developing Dashboards with User-Centered DesignAmanda Makulec
Design sprint session hosted at the TechLady Hackathon, focused on the basic principles and techniques for starting a design process with who will use the data, rather than the tables and tools.
Lightning talk presented at MERL Tech 2018.
Often we think of dashboards as interactive reports instead of being digital products.
By rethinking our criteria of success for launching a new dashboard and borrowing from UX design, we can think more meaningfully about how we build dashboards stakeholders actually want to use.
First Firecat Friday presentation: tools, best practices and design insights we've put to work for organizations of all sizes to help groups and teams work on projects, share ideas, keep track of files, stay on top of tasks -- while feeling like a team.
Webinar: Communications Made Beautiful With Adobe - 2018-09-11TechSoup
When running a campaign for your nonprofit, it’s important to have consistency when it comes to branding and design. In this presentation, we’ll cover how you can use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to brighten up your collateral. You'll learn how to create consistency across brochures, social media posts, web banners, and any other relevant collateral. This is appropriate for those who are new to design and need a few tips and tricks to get started!
With the rate of innovation coming from Microsoft these days, many organizations are struggling to understand which tools and capabilities to use, and when to use them. The fact is: different teams work in different ways. Within the modern digital workplace, there are many different “modalities” of collaboration — and the companies that understand and meet the evolving needs of their end users will have a competitive advantage.
This presentation reprises a keynote presentation given at the European SharePoint Conference (Nov 2016) in Vienna, Austria by Office Server and Services MVPs Christian Buckley from Beezy and Benjamin Niaulin from Sharegate as they discuss real-world scenarios and management considerations of the three primary collaboration modalities: document and process-centric (SharePoint), email-centric (Exchange and Groups), and social-centric (Yammer, Skype for Business) -- and how Beezy can meet the various needs of these modalities.
Planning your Digital Workplace: A Systems-Based Planning ApproachChristian Buckley
When deploying a “Digital Workplace,” where do you begin? What is needed is an iterative, strategic, and systems-based approach of identifying core challenges at the team and company level, working with key stakeholders to identify appropriate strategies, building a solution using a scalable, repeatable, and sustainable change model. This approach drives stakeholder engagement, and ensures a more holistic solution that aligns with the needs of the business at every level. In this presentation, we walk through a systems-based planning approach for Enterprise Collaboration. Topics will include:
--Engaging leaders in a systems analysis, identifying high-priority needs and challenges
--Outlining a set of targeted and strategic actions based on common customer scenarios
--Developing an implementation plan to support successful operational and improvement strategies
The intent of this presentation is to help organizations incorporate systems-based planning into their Digital Workplace planning processes, using real-world customer examples, and to receive tips on how to fold these best practices into their own strategies.
The content experts at IQ want to help you turn data into easy-to-consume, shareable content. So we narrowed the process of infographic creation down to 5 simple steps.
Data science and the art of persuasionAlex Clapson
The presentation of data science to lay audiences—the last mile—hasn’t evolved as rapidly or as fully as the science’s technical part. It must catch up, and that means rethinking how data science teams are put together, how they’re managed, and who’s involved at every point in the process, from the first data stream to the final chart shown to the board. Until companies can successfully traverse that last mile, data science teams will under deliver. They will provide, in Willard Brinton’s words, foundations without cathedrals.
Data Visualization Resource Guide (September 2014)Amanda Makulec
A summary guide to data visualization design, including key design principles, great resources, and tools (listed by category with short explanations) that you can use to help design elegant, effective data visualizations that help share your message & promote the use of your information.
Note that the tools & resources highlighted are suggested, and inclusion should not be considered as an endorsement from JSI.
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with MyLab BusinessCommunication®• Reporting Dashboar.docxadolphoyonker
with MyLab BusinessCommunication®
• Reporting Dashboard—View, analyze, and report learning outcomes
clearly and easily, and get the information you need to keep your
students on track throughout the course with the new Reporting
Dashboard. Available via the MyLab Gradebook and fully mobile-
ready, the Reporting Dashboard presents student performance
data at the class, section, and program levels in an accessible, visual
manner.
• Pearson eText—Keeps students engaged in learning on their own time,
while helping them achieve greater conceptual understanding of course
material. The worked examples bring learning to life, and algorithmic
practice allows students to apply the very concepts they are reading
about. Combining resources that illuminate content with accessible self-
assessment, MyLab with eText provides students with a complete digital
learning experience—all in one place.
• Quizzes and Tests—Pre-built quizzes and tests allow you to quiz students
without having to grade the assignments yourself.
• Video Exercises—These engaging videos explore a variety of
business topics related to the theory students are learning in class.
Quizzes assess students' comprehension of the concepts covered in
each video.
• Learning Catalytics™—Is an interactive, student response
tool that uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to
engage them in more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now
included with MyLab with eText, Learning Catalytics enables
you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture,
and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics.
Instructors, you can:
■ ■■ Pose a variety of open-ended questions that help your
students develop critical thinking skills
■ ■■ Monitor responses to find out where students are struggling
■ ■■ Use real-time data to adjust your instructional strategy and
try other ways of engaging your students during class
■ ■■ Manage student interactions by automatically grouping
students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer
learning
A L W A Y S L E A R N I N G
Giving Students the Skills and Insights They Need to Thrive
in Today’s Digital Business Environment
The essential skills of writing, listening, collaborating, and public speaking are as important as
ever, but they’re not enough to succeed in today’s business world. As business communication
continues to get rocked by waves of innovation—first digital media, then social media, now
mobile communication, and watch out for the upcoming invasion of chatbots—the nature of
communication is changing. And the changes go far deeper than the tools themselves.
In this exciting but complex new world, no other textbook can match the depth and range of
coverage offered by Business Communication Today.
Figure 1.7 The Social Communication Model
The social communication model differs from conventional communication strategies and practices in a
number of significant ways. You’re probably already an accompl.
with MyLab BusinessCommunication®• Reporting Dashboar.docxmansonagnus
with MyLab BusinessCommunication®
• Reporting Dashboard—View, analyze, and report learning outcomes
clearly and easily, and get the information you need to keep your
students on track throughout the course with the new Reporting
Dashboard. Available via the MyLab Gradebook and fully mobile-
ready, the Reporting Dashboard presents student performance
data at the class, section, and program levels in an accessible, visual
manner.
• Pearson eText—Keeps students engaged in learning on their own time,
while helping them achieve greater conceptual understanding of course
material. The worked examples bring learning to life, and algorithmic
practice allows students to apply the very concepts they are reading
about. Combining resources that illuminate content with accessible self-
assessment, MyLab with eText provides students with a complete digital
learning experience—all in one place.
• Quizzes and Tests—Pre-built quizzes and tests allow you to quiz students
without having to grade the assignments yourself.
• Video Exercises—These engaging videos explore a variety of
business topics related to the theory students are learning in class.
Quizzes assess students' comprehension of the concepts covered in
each video.
• Learning Catalytics™—Is an interactive, student response
tool that uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to
engage them in more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now
included with MyLab with eText, Learning Catalytics enables
you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture,
and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics.
Instructors, you can:
■ ■■ Pose a variety of open-ended questions that help your
students develop critical thinking skills
■ ■■ Monitor responses to find out where students are struggling
■ ■■ Use real-time data to adjust your instructional strategy and
try other ways of engaging your students during class
■ ■■ Manage student interactions by automatically grouping
students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer
learning
A L W A Y S L E A R N I N G
Giving Students the Skills and Insights They Need to Thrive
in Today’s Digital Business Environment
The essential skills of writing, listening, collaborating, and public speaking are as important as
ever, but they’re not enough to succeed in today’s business world. As business communication
continues to get rocked by waves of innovation—first digital media, then social media, now
mobile communication, and watch out for the upcoming invasion of chatbots—the nature of
communication is changing. And the changes go far deeper than the tools themselves.
In this exciting but complex new world, no other textbook can match the depth and range of
coverage offered by Business Communication Today.
Figure 1.7 The Social Communication Model
The social communication model differs from conventional communication strategies and practices in a
number of significant ways. You’re probably already an accompl ...
with MyLab BusinessCommunication®• Reporting Dashboar.docxhelzerpatrina
with MyLab BusinessCommunication®
• Reporting Dashboard—View, analyze, and report learning outcomes
clearly and easily, and get the information you need to keep your
students on track throughout the course with the new Reporting
Dashboard. Available via the MyLab Gradebook and fully mobile-
ready, the Reporting Dashboard presents student performance
data at the class, section, and program levels in an accessible, visual
manner.
• Pearson eText—Keeps students engaged in learning on their own time,
while helping them achieve greater conceptual understanding of course
material. The worked examples bring learning to life, and algorithmic
practice allows students to apply the very concepts they are reading
about. Combining resources that illuminate content with accessible self-
assessment, MyLab with eText provides students with a complete digital
learning experience—all in one place.
• Quizzes and Tests—Pre-built quizzes and tests allow you to quiz students
without having to grade the assignments yourself.
• Video Exercises—These engaging videos explore a variety of
business topics related to the theory students are learning in class.
Quizzes assess students' comprehension of the concepts covered in
each video.
• Learning Catalytics™—Is an interactive, student response
tool that uses students' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to
engage them in more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now
included with MyLab with eText, Learning Catalytics enables
you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture,
and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics.
Instructors, you can:
■ ■■ Pose a variety of open-ended questions that help your
students develop critical thinking skills
■ ■■ Monitor responses to find out where students are struggling
■ ■■ Use real-time data to adjust your instructional strategy and
try other ways of engaging your students during class
■ ■■ Manage student interactions by automatically grouping
students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer
learning
A L W A Y S L E A R N I N G
Giving Students the Skills and Insights They Need to Thrive
in Today’s Digital Business Environment
The essential skills of writing, listening, collaborating, and public speaking are as important as
ever, but they’re not enough to succeed in today’s business world. As business communication
continues to get rocked by waves of innovation—first digital media, then social media, now
mobile communication, and watch out for the upcoming invasion of chatbots—the nature of
communication is changing. And the changes go far deeper than the tools themselves.
In this exciting but complex new world, no other textbook can match the depth and range of
coverage offered by Business Communication Today.
Figure 1.7 The Social Communication Model
The social communication model differs from conventional communication strategies and practices in a
number of significant ways. You’re probably already an accomplished ...
In 1922 the great inventor and visionary Thomas Edison prophesied: “I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks."
This is a detailed yet comprehensive memo on the benfits of video as a marketing tool. People don't read what you write on your website, because on average visitors spend 10 seconds viewing it - it's up to you to get their attention! How? Make it quick, make them empathize with your story and also, be clear about your message.
We make explainer videos, so we work with the art of explanation every day, we hope you enjoy this white paper written by Jakub (Kuba) Lebuda - Co-founder and CEO at Clipatize.
Looking forward to your comments!
La importancia de los datos para el mejor aprovechamiento de los conocimientos, es poder compartirlo con otros y maximizar el impacto de los descubrimientos.
Conozca más a trav
Topics in this volume include: An overview of the changing world of digital video advertising, exploring the potential of Vine and Instagram as networks to visually engage mobile users, optimization best practices for YouTube videos, the advent of shop-able video and how it’s being embraced by Amazon.
Es bien sabido el hecho de que la tecnología de la información está cambiando.
Es necesario conocer las 5 tendencias claves que afectan la hoy por hoy:
1) Visualización
2) Big Data
3) "La Nube"
4) Social
5) Móvil
The hi:project: empowering you, empowering us, with a more human webThe hi:project
We pioneer the human interface, the successor to the user interface. We celebrate the human not the user, the individual not the worker, the person not the consumer, helping everyone contribute more value to and derive more value from society and the organizations in their lives.
Breakout session at MERL Tech 2018.
Agile - commonly used in the tech community - offers a number of sticky ideas and principles we can adapt in international development and MERL to improve how we work and support adaptive management.
In this breakout, we focus on three sticky ideas: creating and being guided by user stories, prioritization, and limiting WIP.
Slides from an interactive workshop focused on exposing M&E practitioners to design thinking approaches to understand the needs and experiences of data users at MERL Tech 2017
A quick overview of two techniques from design thinking that can help us better tailor data visualizations to the needs of our audiences. Personas can be used to identify illustrative audience members who represent large groups within our target audience, and journey maps help us understand how an audience receives, interprets, and acts on information.
The illustrative example presented here is rooted in a real world experience, but is not an actual persona and journey used in that work.
Designing Data Visualizations to Strengthen Health SystemsAmanda Makulec
Slide deck from our hands-on workshop hosted at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, focused on basic design tips, tricks, and best practices to improve your charts and graphs.
Visualizations with Empathy: Developing Audience PersonasAmanda Makulec
Presentation from Evaluation 2016 featuring ideas for how evaluators (and other data viz designers) can use the develop of personas to segment and understand their audiences. Instead of thinking just of stakeholder groups and job titles, we approach understanding audiences by developing empathy, borrowing from human centered design.
Highlights from three different speakers on the actual use of dashboards for decisionmaking.
MEASURE Evaluation shares the results of a landscape analysis looking for specific examples of dashboards prompting action. BroadReach shares an example of how their Vantage platform is making HIV data accessible in South Africa. JSI shares an example of low-tech but high-impact dashboard development and coaching that has transformed districts in Zimbabwe.
A short workshop from MERL Tech 2016 on how we can think more purposefully about telling stories with our data and designing visualizations to bring those stories to life in global health and development.
Why People are the Heart of Health Innovation. Keynote presentation at the Boston College Public Health Innovation Symposium (19 March 2016). Highlighting how starting with what people want is key to successful health innovation, and how human centered design can help us do just that.
Designing Usage Dashboards for mHealth Program MonitoringAmanda Makulec
Presentation from the MERL Tech Panel on "Dashboards: Force for Good, Great, or Greater Confusion?" focused on the unique challenges of developing a dashboard of usage data from a mobile application.
Data Visualization Design Best Practices WorkshopAmanda Makulec
Presentation shared at the #MA4Health Data Visualization workshop cofacilitated with my colleague Tahmid Chowdhury. Our aim was to empower participants with simple principles they can apply to any graph or chart to improve its effectiveness in communicating information, and to share resources on viz design relevant to global health practitioners.
Presented on May 7, 2015 to the TechChange Technology for M&E course. The aim of the presentation was to highlight key considerations in designing visualizations as part of international development programs, and includes both challenges of visualization in development programs and six things to consider when designing visualizations.
Chart Makeover: A Women's Nutrition Bar ChartAmanda Makulec
One of the most common requests I receive is to review charts and graphs and provide insight around how to improve them by using the formatting tools available in Excel.
This example shows the process of redesigning the chart to better facilitate comparison within regions of the trend towards a greater percent of women falling into the overweight and obese categories (from 1980 to 2008).
A Data Viz Makeover: Approaches for Improving your VisualizationsAmanda Makulec
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.
An introduction to infographic design written for global health and development professionals, including ideas for storyboarding, design tools, and tips and tricks to create fun, meaningful infographics. Lots of links to free web-based tools and great resources.
Summary deck from our monthly JSI design-storm (design + brainstorm), highlighting the key features of Piktochart for designing visualizations to make information accessible.
Interactive, clickable session highlighting how to apply design principles to Excel graphs to make a data story sing. Originally hosted as a brown-bag lunch presentation at JSI. For more detailed resources on designing various chart types in Excel, check out Ann Emery's Excel series and slide decks http://www.slideshare.net/annkemery/presentations.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Data Centers - Striving Within A Narrow Range - Research Report - MCG - May 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) expects to see demand and the changing evolution of supply, facilitated through institutional investment rotation out of offices and into work from home (“WFH”), while the ever-expanding need for data storage as global internet usage expands, with experts predicting 5.3 billion users by 2023. These market factors will be underpinned by technological changes, such as progressing cloud services and edge sites, allowing the industry to see strong expected annual growth of 13% over the next 4 years.
Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
According to M Capital Group: “Specifically, the long-term cost-saving opportunities available from the rise of remote managing will likely aid value growth for the industry. Through margin optimization and further availability of capital for reinvestment, strong players will maintain their competitive foothold, while weaker players exit the market to balance supply and demand.”
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
1. DATA VIZ 106 ALTERNATIVE REPORTING FORMATS
This deck was designed as a guide for staff looking for resources for creating videos and other alternative reporting formats.
Jessica Dubow
Amanda Makulec
JSI Center for Health Information, Monitoring & Evaluation
November 2014
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+Why Does Interactivity Matter?
+Interactive Timeline
+Scrolling Webpage
+Interactive Graphics
+Visualizing Data with Video
+JSI Examples
+Not Convinced?
+Quick Tips
+Approaches to Making Videos
+Getting Started
+What Are Slidedocs?
+Why Use Slidedocs?
+Making Slidedocs Web-Accessible
TABLE OF CONTENTS
+How We Consume Information
Introduction
Interactive Formats
Videographics
Slidedocs
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Pages 22-26
Pages 10-21
Pages 5-9
Pages 3-4
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How We Consume Information
Traditional reporting formats, usually a reference to long-form reports, have their limitations. Though they are packed with information their content is rarely presented concisely or straightforwardly. In the context of fast-paced business environments where most adults learn visually and have 8 second attention spans, long-form reports simply require too much valuable time.
Consider how you consume information—when was the last time you settled down to read one of these reports? When was the last time you handed one to a co-worker saying, “Oh you just have to read this fascinating 50 page document”? Alternatively, when was the last time you clicked through an infographic in your email? Or shared a two-minute video on Twitter or Facebook? It’s likely much more recent, and much more often.
Alterative reporting formats—which include data visualizations, infographics, videos, slidedocs, and more—can still be packed with information, but they present it as easily consumable and retainable bits. They are tailored to specific audiences, remove unnecessary content and visual clutter, and engage their audience more than long-form reports. Because of this, they are also more shareable. Remembering data and effectively disseminating it are key to evidence-based decision making and to helping JSI achieve its mission.
This slide deck will review alternative reporting with a special emphasis on videographics and slidedocs.
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“We click and consume information on a daily basis. It appears constantly in inboxes, social media, streams, and web browsers, putting us in a constant state of information overload. How we consume information has fundamentally changed, though standard project reporting formats (often required by funders) have been slow to catch up.”
--Clive Thompson, Wired Magazine
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Why Does Interactivity Matter?
Interactivity promotes exploration. Interactive features create a more engaging, interesting, thought-provoking experience for your user that makes it memorable.
You may worry that alternative reporting formats skimp on the details in favor of quick, broad overviews. While alternative reporting formats often do condense information into key takeaway messages or actionable insights, interactivity is one way they share large amounts of data without compromising their simplicity.
Interactive features allow you to share big-picture, high-level themes first and then let your audience explore the details if they desire. In this way your audience is not overwhelmed and the data is still presented in small consumable bits, but the audience can access details on demand and at their own pace.
When exploring different interactive options, keep in mind that an increasing proportion of internet users access the web through tablets and mobile phones in addition to computers. Think about making information accessible to those users with responsive charts like those on chartist.js.
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Interactive Timeline
For what? Telling a story that unfolds with anecdotes and results over time, particularly if you have photos, graphs, and other visual elements to include.
Examples: Both these examples allow you to scroll through a timeline that contains clickable events. Though you are initially only presented with an overview, when you click on the events, you have the option of reading more or enlarging images.
›Fight for Democracy in the Middle East (complex, built in Tiki- Toki)
›MEASURE Evaluation (simple, built in Timeline JS)
Tools:
›Tiki-Toki is a free web-based tool that allows you to build interactive timelines that integrate pictures, videos, and detailed text into clickable events.
›Timeline JS is an open-source web-based tool that allows you to create interactive timelines from Google spreadsheets and publish these timelines on the web.
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Scrolling Webpage
For what? To tell your data story on an elegant, scrolling webpage where elements appear to move as you maneuver around the screen. Scrolling webpages eliminate the step of downloading a PDF, which makes them more accessible, especially for audiences abroad who may have incredibly slow internet speeds.
Examples: This scrolling webpage is long but kept engaging with embedded images, videos, graphs, multiple choice questions, slides, and a clickable table of contents. There is the option of downloading the letter in PDF form too if anyone prefers this format.
›Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2014
Tools: These scrolling web pages require a web-designer to build anything unique or complex.
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Interactive Graphics
For what? To share data in a format that promotes exploration by your audience, who can drill down to different levels of the data using interactive controls. Consider who your audience is in order to determine if this is an appropriate format. You don’t want to distract or overwhelm, but you want to offer enough interactivity for the curious to explore.
Also consider that some audiences will want completed results, conclusions and analyses whereas others will appreciate that interactive graphics allow them to develop their own conclusions by playing with the data. Don’t forget to also consider your audience’s time and interest in the subject as this will also affect the likelihood they engage with an interactive graphic.
Examples: These examples allow you to click through data to see it organized in different ways.
›PRB World Data 2014
›SPRING Factors Affecting Nutrition in Uganda
Tools:
›Tableau (especially new StoryPoints) is a free web-based tool for creating graphs and interactive dashboards. Be careful because any data you publish becomes public.
›Drupal is an open-source website management platform.
10. Videographics
Visualizing Data with Video
JSI Examples
Not Convinced?
Quick Tips
Approaches to Making Videos
Getting Started
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Visualizing Data with Video A summary of why video works from Anni Murray’s Visual.ly Blog Post
The average attention span for video is much higher than for traditional text-based reporting methods. Using video with other methods is critical in today’s media driven world.
Like infographics, videos and motion graphics use text and graphic elements to tell a data story, but they have additional tools available to them like animation, live action video, music, and narration. They are able to engage your senses of sight and hearing together at once, and the effect is a dynamic visualization that changes over time, includes multimedia elements, and is a familiar and enjoyable format for many viewers.
However, videos have a time limit. You may struggle to condense all your information into a two or three minute video and viewers who aren’t immediately hooked may click away after just a few seconds. Videos may require loading, which makes them less effective for people with poor internet connections. Videos can be overwhelming, aren’t easily referenced at a glance, and rely on a viewer’s willingness to watch.
Consider these things when deciding if a video is your best course of action, but know that well-designed videos can deliver impactful messages and be a sum greater than their parts. Also consider ways to overcome some of their limitations—you could include a transcript that can be quickly skimmed or embed the video within a website that loads faster than the video.
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JSI Designed Videos: Some Examples
JSI has already begun creating different types of videos, and these examples show the flexibility of video media, from live drawings to animations.
5th Birthday: How We Can End Preventable Child Deaths
The Story of Mary: TB is Curable
Getting Products to People: How Integration Can Transform Public Health Supply Chains
Zero Deaths From TB
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Not Convinced? Here’s More Support for Video
There is hard evidence that videos are an effective platform for consuming and sharing information.
Every month 4 billion hours of video are viewed on YouTube; every year more than 350 million videos are shared on Twitter. When the word “video” is used in an e-mail subject line, open rates double. In addition, click through rates increase 2-3 times when a video is included in an email. Videos are important for reaching a younger audience as 83% of 12-17 year olds and 91% of 18-24 year olds watch online videos on a regular basis.
Not only do people like watching videos, but those videos impact their actions. People who watch a video are 85% more likely to make a purchase than those who don’t. Companies using video require 37% fewer site visits before a person responds to a call for action.
Videos are getting easier and less expensive to make. You can even make animations yourself using online tools. These various approaches will be covered in following slides.
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Quick Tips for Using Video Effectively From Your Video Marketing Handbook Infographic
Include a creative hook in the first ten seconds since 20% of viewers will stop watching a video if they are not engaged in this short time.
Avoid too much text. Keep text short and legible and leave it on the screen as long as possible without boring the reader. Moving text is difficult to read and viewers have different reading speeds. Leaving text on the screen too long may bore faster readers while transitioning too quickly may stress slower readers.
Appeal to universal emotions. The most effective and shared videos are those that are funny, moving, surprising, or unique.
Include a link to your website so that you can direct viewer traffic once your video ends.
Produce quality content on a regular schedule. Successful brands tend to have 50% more videos than their competitors so be consistent about releasing content.
Use social media since these social networks are where most viewers discover and share videos.
Remember,
any successful communications, fundraising, or advocacy campaign is multi-faceted and involves strategic planning, integrated components, and carefully timed phases.
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Approaches to Making a Video
JSI has used several different approaches to create videos. Three different examples are reviewed below and discussed on subsequent slides.
Design Firm
Watch here.
SC4CCM hired an external design firm because they liked the professional and engaging videos this firm made. They wanted to showcase project work and key findings to a wider audience than they usually reach.
Community-Based Video
SPRING/Digital Green Collaborate Approach to Community-led Video for Nutrition wanted to take advantage of growing interest in new technologies, building capacity for participatory videos, and creating linkages between agriculture, WASH, and livelihoods. They created videos of community members talking about nutrition and showed facilitated screenings.
Online Tool Watch here. SC4CCM wanted to use in- house designers to create a Prezi but no one was available, so they explored options online and found Go Animate, a cheap tool that seemed very user-friendly. Interested in other online tools? Check out this list.
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Approaches to Making a Video
Pros:
Cons:
Design Firm
›High quality, professional video
›Designers helped distill messages into catchy, engaging storyline
›Fast turn around (about 9 weeks)
›More expensive (ask CHIME for detailed budget)
›Required a lot of interaction from JSI staff with the design team to make sure everyone was on the same page.
›Design firm usually works with a US audience so there were some cultural misunderstandings with the graphics.
Online Tool (Go Animate)
›Inexpensive; cost 3 months of Go Animate membership and a voiceover expert.
›JSI staff could work at their own pace and didn’t feel as rushed as when working with a designer.
›There are many online support forums that quickly answer any technical questions.
›Took a lot of JSI staff time (6+ months) so you have to factor in the cost of their time
›Required a staff member to learn new programs.
›JSI staff is less experienced with showing complex messages in concise visual ways
›Result is less professional looking than an outsourced video.
Community- Based Video
›Engaged multiple partners and community actors.
›Inexpensive way to promote behavior change.
›Communities like watching the videos with familiar faces in them.
›Technical issues: lack of lighting and complications of needing multiple actors to achieve content communication.
›Knowledge issues: those making and editing the videos may not be experts in the subject matter.
›Increased workload of field personnel.
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Approaches to Making a Video: Lessons Learned For Your Consideration
Design Firm:
›Best to finalize key messages before beginning work since cost and time increase when there are changes.
›Try to keep messaging as concise as possible.
›Multiple rounds of meeting are needed to provide ongoing feedback—even when outsourcing, expect frequent communication with design team.
Online Tool:
›Figure out your characters first and try to work in chronological order because its tedious to make changes.
›Recognize that the script will likely change and it is difficult to estimate the length of time needed for voiceovers.
›Prepare to spend a lot of time reviewing and making edits—like when outsourcing, this requires a commitment from the project team, but this is spread out over more time.
Community-Based Video:
›The beginning period of the program required much handholding by Digital Green and involvement by SPRING. However, now that CSPs have more knowledge and experience, they should be able to work independently moving forward.
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Getting Started: Mapping a Storyboard and Writing a Script
No matter which approach you take to creating your video, you have to start with a plan. The planning stage is critical. It will either save you extensive back-and-forth with your outsourced design team or it will prevent you yourself from having to spend time re- doing work. Everyone has a different creative process, so feel free to tailor this to your own needs.
Most people start by brainstorming. Brainstorming can be done in different forms and stages. If you’re working with a team, it may be useful for you to take some individual time to consider all your own ideas. Sketch your thoughts out on paper. This allows you to visualize your ideas and draw connections. You’ll also have a record of your creative process to help you remember.
At this point, you may want to start working with your team. Your initial goal should be to generate as many ideas as possible. Ask “How Might We” questions and use post-it notes placed on a wall so that ideas can be grouped and rearranged and everyone can look at them together. For more information, review the Storyboard Development section of this slide deck.
Image credit: Ann Emery, annkemery.com
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Getting Started: Mapping a Storyboard and Writing a Script
Ask yourself and your team:
1.What is the goal of this video? Why are we making it?
2.Who are we making this video for?
3.What’s our narrow video topic? (Be specific)
4.What are the takeaway messages we want viewers to gain from this video?
5.What’s our call-to-action? What do we want viewers to do after they’ve finished watching the video?
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Once you have generated many ideas, its time to start organizing them. Using post-it notes aids this process, but you can also mindmap on a sheet of paper or using an online tool like Draw.io or Twine.
Now its time to turn your mindmap into a storyboard. You can either use large post-it notes for each stage of your storyboard, fold a sheet of paper, or use an online tool like Storyboard That. Your storyboard should stand alone and make sense to others without you having to pitch it, even if its comprised of very basic sketches.
Allow everyone on your team to create an anonymous storyboard, and then hang them up next to each other. Allow everyone to walk around silently and place an unlimited amount of check marks near ideas, frames, or entire storyboards that they like. Have a conversation, and then vote (or use multiple rounds of voting) to pull out everyone’s favorite ideas.
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Getting Started: Mapping a Storyboard and Writing a Script
At this point, you should have a framework storyboard for which you can start writing a script. It doesn’t have to be complicated or fancy—in fact, the simpler the better so that it comes off straightforward and natural in your video. Don’t bullet point your script. Write in plain, conversational English as this will allow you to connect better with you viewers.
Your script should include more than a narration. In fact, some videos don’t even have a voiceover, they just use text on screen and music. So, your script should include details regarding camera shots, characters, backgrounds, and text if you plan to use it. Google offers some templates you can use to inspire yourself and understand how to format your script.
Using Google Docs can help you collaborate with your team on the script. When you have written something, get together with your team and do a table read. Even if you only plan to have one narrator, it will be useful for everyone to hear how your video flows and if it makes sense. Edit, edit, edit.
It’s likely that changes will be made to your script after you have started creating a video because you’ll notice things you might not have thought of before you could visualize the finished product. However, the better your script is to start, the less you’ll have to backtrack which will save you a lot of time and money.
22. Slidedocs
What Are Slidedocs?
Why Use Slidedocs?
Making Slidedocs Web-Accessible
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What Are Slidedocs?
This resource guide is a Slidedoc.
Slidedocs are report layout formats that offer a compromise between bulleted presentation slides and long-form reports, with templates designed for use in the ubiquitous Powerpoint by Nancy Duarte. They’re meant to be read, not presented, so they contain complete sentences and ideas.
However, they break content up into slides (pages) that can be flipped through easily. Their organization, use of white space and lack of clutter help them to be understood quickly and allow them to be very educational, even when packed with text.
A Slidedoc is an appropriate tool for you if you have detailed information to share but won’t be there to explain it, if your content is aided by visuals and prose, and if your information is better consumed in small visual chunks.
For an comprehensive overview of slidedocs and an excellent example of one, check out Nancy Duarte’s deck.
Slide decks are made in the familiar tool of PowerPoint, but be careful that you don’t accidentally create a presentation. Nancy Duarte offers some great templates to help you structure your Slidedoc here. When in doubt, hand your Slidedoc to a coworker and see if they are able to understand it without any supporting explanations from you.
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Why Use Slidedocs?
Because they are:
Visual: visualizing information helps your audience see what you’re explaining
Versatile: they can incorporate graphs, photos, text, videos, etc.
Interactive: slidedocs contain internal links and also link to web- pages
Tablet Ready: the aspect ratio makes slidedocs easy to load onto other devices
Spreadable: their modular nature allows slides to be moved around and incorporated into other decks
Shareable: SlideShare makes slidedocs embeddable, tag-able, and shareable, but they can also be emailed easily as PDFs or presentations
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Making Slidedocs Web-Accessible
SlideShare is an online tool you can use to share presentations and slide decks by easily uploading them to this tag-able and searchable website. Once uploaded, you can view your presentations on the SlideShare website or you can embed them elsewhere. This way your audience can click through your presentation without having to download the PowerPoint or PDF.
Examples
›SlideShare embedded on a website
›DataViz Presentation Decks on SlideShare site