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Jens Kaasbøll University of Oslo, 19 Feb 2019

Slide design

• Keep it

– Simple – Visible – Legible – Understandable

• Additional literature

– Hearst (2003) Information Visualization: Principles, Promise, and Pragmatics

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Keep it simple

• One message per slide
• Combine text and illustration
• Don’t fill it up

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HEALTH CARE LEVEL PRIMARY SECONDARY OTHER SECTORS:

• Environment
• Civil Administration
• Transport
• Education

Routine Health Information System

Community Level

TERTIARY Patient/Client contact Referred patients First level care unit District Hospital Referred patients Regional Hospital Regional Health Management Team Referred patients National Hospital University Hospital Ministry of Health Universities Other Health Institutions

INDIVIDUAL CARE MANANAGEMENT HEALTH UNIT MANAGEMEET SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

DISTRICT LEVEL REGIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVEL HEALTH CARE SERVICES HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEM

HEALTH SYSTEM

NON-ROUTINE DATA COLLECTION METHODS

CATCHMENT AREA POPULATION District Health Management Team

Keep it visible

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• Sharp contrasts

– Black on white – White on black – Never colour on colour – Never say never

• Minimum 18 points font size
• Also in graphs and illustrations

– 14 points for references which the audience does not need to read during presentation

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Pie ch chart

• Pie chart is used to show how much each value contributes to the total value
• Sample data

The graph Budget allocation by Sector: 2015/2016 % Allocation Health 34 Education 16 Agriculture 15 Home Affairs 15 Water Developn 12 Other 8

34 16 15 15 12 8

% Allocation

Health Education Agriculture Home Affairs Water Developn Other

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Use legible fonts

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Serifs tie letters together into words – High resolution display or print Low resolution screens and projectors: à Fonts without (sans) serifs are clearer T

Keep it legible

1 – 7 – 7 1 message per slide Max 7 lines Max 7 words per line

• When writing text on a slide, don’t include commas or
• ther punctuation; rather divide your sentence into short
• ne liners, and when presenting, say the conjunctions

and other words which tie the one liners together

• Emphasi

size ze by y bold face ce – Not by underlining

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Choosing the right chart type

Charts convey information more quickly but each chart type has a different me

meanin ing and use

• se. Using a wrong type can mislead the

information user

• 1. Line chart
• 2. Pie chart
• 3. Clustered Column chart
• 4. Stacked Column chart
• 4. Indicator-driven data analysis and reporting
• Data elements describe the raw data (counts) being collected
• Indicators are formulas based on data elements that are more powerful

in data analysis, e.g. coverage or incidence rates

• Indicator formulas are defined through the user interface
• Indicators allow comparisons of areas with different populations using

target populations as denominators

• Indicators are supported in all the data analysis and reporting tools

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Keep it understandable

• Self explaining graphics
• Consistent fonts

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Poor data quality Poor information use No feedback Good data quality Information use Feedback Change

Peer learning Participation Guidelines Incentive mechanism

– there is no such thing à Legend Influences

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STRATEGIC PLAN RESULTS ACTIVITIES RAW DATA

Information subsystems

Forms, registers, etc M&E mechanisms INDICATORS INDICATORS Internal accountability V i s i

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Mission

Priority Actions

External accountability ACTION PLAN

What do the five types of arrows mean?