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I remember seeing a few box and whisker plots in grad school but I do not encounter them very often now. I have used and see histograms more often. I personally think histograms are easier to understand for most people but I would consider the target audience when picking out one of these graphs. I might choose a box and whisker plot if I was presenting to a group of statisticians because they might want to see the interquartile range and would be familiar with this type of graph. For most other audiences I would probably stick with a histogram because it is a simple graph and is easier to understand.
I would use a bar graph to show ranking. Curative care is the most frequent category for both Northern and Eastern. Speech therapy is the least frequent ranking in the Northern Zone. Inpatient obstetrics and inpatient medical are the least frequent in the Eastern zone.
Which type of graph do you think is best for showing Flores del Mundo’s membership trends over the course of the year?
You could use a timeline to graph this data and just call out some key things from the year that you want to point out. I agree with everyone else though that a line graph would work well.Does your answer change if you’re graphing total membership versus employee/spouse/dependent?
No, I would still make a similar graph.Does your answer change if you want to show Eastern and Northern on the same graph?
No, I would still use the same graph type. If I went with a timeline option I would make two separate graphs. If I went with a line graph I would use different colors on the same graph to show the different zones.I do not think the WHO local maternity dashboard is a dashboard. The data is not consolidated in a way that helps the reader easily understand what they are looking at. I thought about the color coding and if that would make it a dashboard, but I had to spend several minutes figuring out what the color coding meant. In Few’s article he states that information in a dashboard can be monitored at a glance.
