[Sherry Roberts]

Have you encountered many/any box-and-whisker plots in the course of your work? On other dashboards?
Answer: We see box-and-whisker a lot at work, clinical trials use these types of displays often to show statistical outputs of data. It help to visualize the norms and outliers in datasets. I haven’t really seen this type of visualization in other dashboards that I have encountered.

What about histograms?
Answer: To be honest I had not appreciated the difference between a histogram vs a bar chart before this course. It’s great to learn something new. I am wondering if I have been looking at histograms but not understanding what they were in the past.

If you have little or no prior experience with them, do you think they are easy to understand? If not, can you think of some alternate ways to display distribution data?
Answer: I have always struggled with box-and-whisker before, the class exercises were helpful because in the work setting where I normally see them it is assumed that we all understand them. Ian’s clip that he provided was very helpful also. I have a much better understanding of what I am looking at now! Thank you!

I’m not sure about the histogram, I will be more aware of the difference going forward so I think time will tell how clear histograms are to me. Stay tuned!

[Sherry Roberts]

Which is the best type of graph to show ranking?
Answer: I usually use bar graphs to show ranking, It’s easy to see an interpret and you can also see all categories in relation to each other.

If we rank claims from most to least frequent, which service category would be at the top of the list (most frequent)?
Answer: Curative Care visits happen most frequently in both the Eastern and the Northern zones.

Which would be at the bottom?
Answer:
Eastern zone: Inpatient Medical and Inpatient Obstetrics both have 2
Northern zone: Speech Therapy with 1

Is this true for both Eastern and Northern Zones, or do the rankings differ?
Answer: Ranking differ between the 2 zones for the lowest and are the same for the highest.

[Sherry Roberts]

Which type of graph do you think is best for showing Flores del Mundo’s membership trends over the course of the year?
Answer: I would use a line graph with dots, I looked at it both ways and thought the dots were easier to see

Does your answer change if you’re graphing total membership versus employee/spouse/dependent?
Answer: Yes, I think a stacked bar graph with labels would work best for this scenario

Does your answer change if you want to show Eastern and Northern on the same graph?
Answer: Yes I think I would go with stacked bar graphs for this showing both regions side by side for comparison. The graph would be too busy if you showed it by month so I would change to quarters maybe.

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