Top Highlights

• what it takes to create clear and compelling displays of health and healthcare data that people love to use, and which raise awareness and move people to take action. The answer is paradoxically simple. It requires strong teams of experts in the highly complex disciplines of health and healthcare, statistics, data, technology, accessibility design,...
• That's why organizations have to stop hunting unicorns and commit to building diverse teams who bring the expertise required and the ability to communicate and collaborate.
• John Snow (1813–1858) and Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) understood that visual display could be a highly effective method for grasping and communicating the messages buried in data.
• In the now-famous “Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East,” each month is represented as a twelfth of a circle. The months with more deaths are shown with longer wedges so that the area of each wedge represents the total number of deaths. Preventable deaths are blue, deaths due to wounds are red, and deaths from all other causes...
• It requires strong teams of experts in the highly complex disciplines of health and healthcare, statistics, data, technology, accessibility design, data visualization, and user experience testing—teams who appreciate the unique skills, experiences, and expertise each person brings to a project and the ability to work collaboratively.