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Have you encountered many/any box-and-whisker plots in the course of your work? On other dashboards?
I´ve been working in public health for almost 7 years and I have rarely seen a box-and-whisker plot. I´ve seen them in journals buy not really for work purposes. I think their understanding is not very straight forward and maybe that´s why not commonly used.What about histograms?
Yes, I do see a lot of histograms.If you have little or no prior experience with them, do you think they are easy to understand? If not, can you think of some alternate ways to display distribution data?
I think they are easy to understand if you have some basic knowledge on their interpretation; otherwise, they are not easily understood. Where I work, most of the information generated is intended to be used by the public or other stakeholders who are not necessarily trained in public health and therefore, we don´t use them often.Which is the best type of graph to show ranking?
The best graph to show ranking is a bar graph.If we rank claims from most to least frequent, which service category would be at the top of the list (most frequent)?
The most frequent category is curative care visits in both zones.Which would be at the bottom?
For the Northern zone, Speech Theray is at the bottom; and fot the Eastern Zone, Inpatient Obstetric and Inpatient Medical are both at the bottom.Is this true for both Eastern and Northern Zones, or do the rankings differ?
The rankings differ but the most frequent service category is the same.Which type of graph do you think is best for showing Flores del Mundo’s membership trends over the course of the year?
I would choose a line graph for this purpose. Since we are interested in trends, I would choose a line graph without dots.Does your answer change if you’re graphing total membership versus employee/spouse/dependent?
Yes, a stacked graph could be used for this purpose. This way you could show the trend while showing employee/spouse/dependent membership.Does your answer change if you want to show Eastern and Northern on the same graph?
For this I would again suggest using a line graph if what you wantes to show was the membership trend. If we were to show total membership versus employee/spouse/dependent for Eastern and Northern, the I would use side by side stacked bars.
