Making Data Work for You

Whitney Tucker, MPH

Policy and Research Associate

Overview• Children’s Trust

• KIDS COUNT

− Project

− Data Center. S.C. Data

• Free Visualization Tools

− Moovly

− Piktochart

− Tableau 101

− CartoDB

Advocacy, Policy, and Program

Development

Monitoring, Surveillance,

and Evaluation

Fund Direct Service

Provision

Convene Public and Private Partnerships

Training and Professional Development

Mission:

To strengthen and

support public

and private

prevention efforts

that keep South

Carolina's

children safe.

What We Do

Prevent Child Abuse South

Carolina

Community Based Child

Abuse Prevention

MIECHV

Safe Kids of South

Carolina

Strengthening Families Program

Training and Professional Development

Policy and Advocacy

Mission:

To strengthen and

support public and

private prevention

efforts that keep

South Carolina's

children safe.

How We Do It

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• Established in 1948 by Jim

Casey, founder of United Parcel

Service (UPS)

• Largest national private

foundation dedicated to

improving outcomes for

vulnerable children and their

families

• Funds several data-based

advocacy efforts – KIDS COUNT

is a signature project

Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Created in 1990 to provide

quality data and information on

children to decision makers

• Nationally, creates KIDS COUNT

Data Book each year and allows

access to online resources

including KIDS COUNT Data

Center

• Supports grantees in all 50

states, DC, USVI and Puerto

Rice to produce local data on

child well-being

KIDS COUNT

KIDS

COUNT

State

Network

• The KIDS COUNT data

index covers four domains:

1. Economic Well-Being

2. Education

3. Health and Family

4. Community

• Each domain has four

indicators of child welfare,

for a total of 16 indicators

KIDS COUNTData Collection

KIDS COUNTSupplemental Publications

KIDS COUNT releases

several additional

publications utilizing

their data in addition to

the annual Data Book

• Race for Results policy

report explores the

intersection of kids, race

and opportunity

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USING

THE DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

HOME

PAGEd a t a c e n t e r . k i d s c o u n t . o r g

USING

THE DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 1:

SELECT A

STATE

USING THE

DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 2:

SELECT AN

INDICATOR

• Indicator selection leads to

a report page that displays

data for locations of

interest

• You can manipulate this

table to display data for

select locations and years

Using the Data Center: Indicator Selection, cont.

USING THE

DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 3:

RANK

AREAS BY

INDICATORS E L E C T T H E ‘ S O R T / R A N K ’

T A B A T T H E L E F T

USING THE

DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 4:

MAP

AREAS BY

INDICATORSEL EC T T H E ‘M AP ’ T AB

USING THE

DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 5: CREATE

LINE

GRAPHS BY

INDICATORS E L E C T T H E ‘ L I N E G R A P H ’

T A B

USING THE

DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 6: CREATE

BAR

GRAPHS BY

INDICATORS E L E C T T H E ‘ B A R G R A P H ’

T A B

USING THE

DATA

CENTERBY L O C AT I O N

STEP 7: SHARE

FINDINGS S E L E C T T H E ‘ S H A R E ’

B U T T O N A T T H E T O P R I G H T

NO TE : UT I L IT IES

MENT I ONED I N T H I S

PRESENT AT ION ARE

AVAI LABLE FO R ALL

I NDI CATORS, W HETHER

DAT A I S ACCESSED BY

LO CATION, T O PIC , O R

ADVANCED SEARCH

A KIDS COUNT data profile for the

entire state of South Carolina is

also available for download

through the Children’s Trust

website.

scChildren.org/kidscount

Children’s TrustState Data Profile Access

Profiles of each county in

South Carolina outlining the

data found in the KIDS

COUNT Data Center are

available for download

through the Children’s Trust

website

scChildren.org/CountyData

Children’s TrustCounty Data Profile Access

https://piktochart.com/

Strengths & Weaknesses

Many templates & icons

Easy to use

Some animation features

Can be shared and embedded online

Finicky and somewhat difficult to move things around

Only partially appears in Explorer

Graphics aren’t mobile-enabled

Team Project - Piktochart

https://www.moovly.com/

Strengths & Weaknesses

You can upload your own elements

Easy drag-and-drop method

Video can be exported to YouTube or Facebook

Can only store 20 video elements (pictures, text pieces, etc.)

Low resolution

Pretty complicated for non-digital natives

Sample Project - Moovly

https://public.tableau.com/s/

Strengths & Weaknesses

Create interactive charts, graphs, and maps

Easy drag-and-drop method

Can be embedded to blogs or websites

Making changes to the original data requires you to re-do your project

Visualizations can be linked and embedded, but not directly saved

Sample Project - Tableau

• Dashboards combine

several project sheets

• Interactive and able to

be embedded online

• Can create

storyboards to explain

a phenomenon

https://carto.com/

Strengths & Weaknesses

Unlimited data sets and map views

Interactive

Maps can be saved as image files

Great for large data sets

Highly customizable

No desktop styling suite

Gets expensive to really unlock its potential

Data cleaning to ensure compatibility can be tedious

Sample Project – Carto DB

Questions?