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Line graphs are a great visual way to show trends over time so I would go with that to display membership numbers over the course of the year.
If want to look at membership numbers comparing employee, spouse and dependent you could do a color coded line graph.
If adding in Eastern vs. Northern and breaking still breaking down by employee, spouse and dependent, I would try a stacked bar graph because a regular bar graph would have too many bars.
While the displayed data in the WHO article has some dashboard attributes, it it does not meet the critical attributes sited in Few’s article which is having “intuitive indicators … that are instantly understandable”. To me it is more of the raw data that could be used to create a user friendly dashboard. Given that the end use often had to view it in black and white, the color coding did not add the value it needed to be easily visually interpreted, I am going with it being more of just a data table and not a dashboard.
