data visualization 201: infographic design & data mapping linda hofschire meghan wanucha zeth...
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Data Visualization 201: Infographic Design & Data Mapping
Linda HofschireMeghan Wanucha
Zeth Lietzau
What are your design goals?
Steps for Success
1. Begin with numbers2. Understand your goals and
audience3. Find your story4. Design, refine, repurpose5. Share
Summer Reading Survey
My child's enjoyment of reading increased
My child's reading by choice increased
My child's reading skills increased
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
49%
49%
54%
After participating in summer reading...
Steps for Success
1. Begin with numbers2. Understand your goals and
audience3. Establish your approach4. Design, refine, repurpose5. Share
Goals and Audience
Goals and Audience
Each year, Colorado public libraries offer engaging summer reading programs to encourage children and teens to read for fun and to prevent summer learning loss…
Steps for Success
1. Begin with numbers2. Understand your goals and
audience3. Find your story4. Design, refine, repurpose5. Share
What’s the story?
My child's enjoyment of reading increased
My child's reading by choice increased
My child's reading skills increased
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
49%
49%
54%
After participating in summer reading...
What’s the story?
Child’s age
Summer reading participation history Library card
How respondent learned about summer reading
Plan to visit library in fall
What’s the story?
Child’s age
Summer reading participation history Library card
How respondent learned about summer reading
Plan to visit library in fall
What’s the story?
All survey respondents
Parents of children ages 4-6
Families participating in summer reading for the first time
49%
59%
61%
My child’s enjoyment of reading increased
All survey respondents
Parents of children ages 4-6
Families participating in summer reading for the first time
49%
59%
59%
My child’s reading skills increased
What’s the story?
What’s the story?
All survey respondents
Families participating in summer reading for the first time
Parents of children ages 4-6
54%
60%
61%
My child’s reading by choice increased
Steps for Success
1. Begin with numbers2. Understand your goals and
audience3. Find your story4. Design, refine, repurpose5. Share
Design, Refine, Repurpose
Format—print, online, both?
Steps for Success
1. Begin with numbers2. Understand your goals and
audience3. Establish your approach4. Design, refine, repurpose5. Share
One Book 4 Colorado
One Book 4 Colorado
http://stephanieevergreen.com/aggregated-stacked-bars/
One Book 4 Colorado
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Piktochart
Pick template or start from scratch
Edit existing elements or drag and drop new ones
Save, export, and share!
Piktochart
PowerPoint
You are trying to tell the story of the 21st century library to your community, who believes that libraries are book warehouses.
Using your case study’s Impact Survey results, select several data points to tell this story
Determine a strategy for visually representing the data points
Scenario
Where we were
One simple question
Thank You!