Data Visualization Done DifferentlyJonathan Schwabish @jschwabish
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Preattentive Processing
Cognitive operations that can be performed prior to focusing attention on any particular region of an image.
…The stuff you notice right away.
Why is it easy to find Waldo on the next slide?
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Change in variability of climate and GDP per person • Middle East & North Africa • North America • Oceania • Sub-Saharan Africa
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Source: "Climate models predict increasing temperature variability in poor countries", by Sebastian Bathiany, Vasilis Dakos, Marten Scheffer and Timothy M. Lenton, Science Advances, May 2018
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How the cost of raising a child has changed
In 1960, the average middle-income family spent the equivalent of $202,020 in 2015 dollars to raise a child f rom infancy to age 17. Today, it costs $233,610 to raise a child, and much of the increase comes from child care and education expenses as women joined the workforce.
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Data Visualization Best Practices
Reduce Clutter
Integrate Graphics & Text
Source: Washington Post
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Source: Klerman and Danielson, The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2011.
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Source: Klerman and Danielson, The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2011.
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Source: Klerman and Danielson, The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2011.
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Tick marks probably unnecessary
Source: Klerman and Danielson, The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2011.
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Source: Klerman and Danielson, The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2011.
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Source: Klerman and Danielson, The Transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2011.
Implied Impulse Response Functions for Different Caseloads (Percentage Change)
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Blogs? Books?
Techniques? Tools?
Schwabish, Jonathan (2021). Slide Deck Session 15: Data Visualization Done Differently - Child Welfare Evidence-Building Academy. OPRE Report 2021-120, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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