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A horizontal bar graph would be the best type to illustrate ranking. For both zones, curative care would rank at the top. In the Eastern Zone, inpatient medical and inpatient obstetrics tie at the bottom (2 each), while in the Northern Zone, speech therapy ranks at the bottom (1).
Trends over time tend to be best represented by line graphs. Total membership trends, or for Eastern and Northern on one graph, I would go with a line graph in both cases. For the latter, I would include a legend that runs close to the end of the lines at the right of the chart.
To compare total membership versus employee/spouse/dependent would depend on what you were trying to gauge from the data. If you want a visual of total membership, and how much of that total is comprised of employee/spouse/dependent, a stacked line graph may be a good option. Alternatively, if what you want to visualize is the hard trends for each category, a bar graph or a composite bar and line graph (line representing total, and bars representing the separate components) may work better.
Based on Few’s article, I would consider the maternity dashboard to be a dashboard. Although it doesn’t follow some of the best practices discussed (using color in table formatting, the overuse of bright colors, and the overuse of color in highlighting the data), it succeeds at being a visual display of the data that they are tracking to improve outcomes, while condensing the information down to a single view that can be monitored at a glance.
