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I’ve encountered box-and-whisker plots in academic settings and a couple of times in academic research papers. However, I don’t recall having ever encountered box-and-whisker plots on other dashboards.
I have definitely encountered histograms before–again, most often in academic papers or in academic settings.
While I have prior experience with box-and-whisker plots and histograms, I don’t think that they are particularly intuitive for the everyday reader without a legend or textual explanation. I know that bell curves have been a bit more commonly used to illustrate data like population data, so that might be another option.
1. The best type of graph to show ranking is a bar graph.
2. In both the Eastern and Northern Zones, Curative Care Vist was the most frequent.
3. In the Eastern Zone, Inpatient Medical and Inpatient Obstetrics are equally the least frequent. In the Northern Zone, Speech Therapy is the least frequent.
4. While Curative Care Visits are the most frequent in both the Eastern and Northern Zones, the least frequent claim differs between the two zones, as shown in my answer to Question 3.1. I agree that the line graph would be best to show membership trends over the course of the year, as this graph features overall trends and patterns.
2. Yes, my answer would change because if I’m graphing trends for employees, spouses, and dependents, a line graph might get too visually unwieldy. I would, instead, use a vertical bar graph, where each point in time would be associated with 3 differently colored bars, representing Employee, Spouse, and Child. I like Rachel’s suggestion above to use quarters as the “points in time” since Flores del Mundo’s data will be collected, eventually, over many years, and you don’t want the graph to get too unwieldy.
3. Yes, my answer would again change. Just showing Eastern and Northern on the same graph would not make the line graph too visually unwieldy, so I could go back to using a line graph to depict the data and show overall trends over time.I agree with the above statements. While creating a dashboard does seem to be the intended goal of the WHO Maternity Dashboard study (i.e., they meet some of the criteria like having a visual display and, presumably, the most important information all displayed on one screen), this dashboard does not provide an at-a-glance view or graphical visualization of the data. Moreover, it is not clear whether all the data presented are relevant to their goal, and they do not present any predefined conclusions. As Mariana mentioned earlier, the WHO’s version of the dashboard is much more like a well-organized spreadsheet.
