[Julia D’Ambrosio]

I have not encountered many box and whisker plots or histograms during my MPH.
I think they are easy to understand, but I think the histograms are a little easier than the box and whisker plots.
I like how the box and whisker plots show the outliers in the data set, and I think for a data set with more variance they are useful.

For alternatives, I would use a bar graph to represent the data. I think it looks similar to a histogram in how it distributes the data. They both convey the shape of the data well.

[Julia D’Ambrosio]

The best way to depict rankings is in a bar graph. At the top of the list would be professional care, and at the bottom would be inpatient. This is the same for both eastern and northern zones.

[Julia D’Ambrosio]

I would use a line graph to track the Flores Del Mundo membership over the course of a year. A line graph is best at simply looking at chronological trends.
If we were to change it to look at membership between employee, spouses, and dependents, I would most likely use a bar graph. Bar graphs are great for comparing categorical data.
If I want to show membership of employees, spouses, and dependents on the same graph, I may use a bar graph with sub groups, and the two sub groups would be the two zones.

[Julia D’Ambrosio]

As stated above, I do not think that the maternity dashboard is a true dashboard. While it displays the data in a visual way, this visual does not have a predetermined conclusion. Therefore, the data seems to be too general rather than specific to supporting the trend that the author would like the audience to know. Due to it’s lack of graphs, no predetermined conclusion, and the overload of data, I do not think this visual is a data dashboard.

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