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1. Bar graphs are the easiest to see Ranking because visually it shows quantifiable amounts easily. This allows viewers a quicker understanding of ranked quantities.
2. Curative Care was highest for the Northern Region at 1110 claims.
3. The least common for the Northern Region was speech therapy with 1 claim.
4. While both regions have curative as number one for most frequent claims the rest of their rankings differ.1. I have not come across a lot of box and whisker plots in my current work in public health however, we used them frequently in my research lab. I feel like it just goes to show it depends on intended audience. Box and whisker plots are great for those who have a deeper understanding of Statistical analysis however, for the average population it would be more confusing.
2.Histograms I see much more frequently in public health as well as my prior experience in research.
3.I feel like box and whisker plots can be very confusing for people who don’t work with statistics. However, I feel like histograms are more intuitive. If I needed to pick another option for people to use for distribution data density plots can also be helpful. However, they can be more difficult to understand if density isn’t high enough.
1. Personally I feel like trends over time are most of the time best scene as line graphs. This allows people looking at the graphs to clearly interpret positive and negative difference month to month.
2. If I was given the opion I would likely separate employee, spouses, and children into three diffent graphs so that I could use line graphs unless there was a reason to compare memberships of employees over time vs spouse/ children.
3. I would maintain my graph choice if comparing Eastern and Northern. I would actually argue that I may not need to split up employee, spouses and children until we are comparing Eastern and Northern.The WHO Maternity Dashboard appears to be intended as a dashboard however, there is no at a glance information. It is not simple it is very complex and a lot of information not organized in any way to quickly understand the information. This could almost be a subset of data collected. Also this is a trend over time and does not show us what we should be taking away from the information provided.
