Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data : Creating Clear and Compelling Visualizations to See How You're Doing

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Section I Establishing a Framework and Process -- Chapter 1 Health and Healthcare Data Visualizations of Historical Importance -- Chapter 2 Stop Hunting Unicorns and Start Building Teams and Know The Data -- Search for Characteristics and Core Competencies -- Get to Know the Data -- Classifications, Intent, Purpose, and Lineage -- Two Types of Data -- Qualitative/Categorical Data -- Quantitative/Numerical Data -- Scales/Levels of Measure -- Nominal -- Ordinal -- Interval -- Ratio -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Requirements-Gathering andDesign Methods -- Design Thinking Foundational Concepts -- Design Methods -- Contextual Inquiry -- Mental Models -- Personas -- Persona Creation Guide -- Graphic Organizers -- Guided Analytics Framework -- Summary Overview Dashboard -- Supporting Focused Reports -- Details -- Multidimensional Exploratory Displays (MEDs™) -- Sketching -- Prototyping -- Testing -- Summary -- Section II Perceiving the Best Practices of Data Visualization -- Chapter 4 The Research -- Research Informs Data Visualization Best Practices -- Preattentive Attributes -- Preattentive Attributes at Work -- Gestalt Principles -- Color Theory -- The Power of White Space -- Where People Look -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Table Design Checklist -- Fundamentals of Table Design -- Organization/Categorization -- Non-Data Ink -- Fonts -- Number Alignment and Formatting -- Labels -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Powerful Visualizations in Four Shapes -- Bars, Lines, Points, and Boxes -- Shape One: Bars -- Bar Basics -- Using Bars To: See How You're Doing -- Distributions -- Histograms -- Population Pyramid (Paired Bars) -- Ranking -- Change over Time -- Comparing Multiple Data Points -- Proportions | Part-to-Whole -- Challenging the 100% Myth -- Deviation (Difference, Variation) -- Ranges and Comparative Values.