From the course: Using Public Health Dashboards

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Dashboard visualizations

Dashboard visualizations

- [Instructor] So dashboards also include visualizations. And visualizations can be complex because of the technology that now allows us to create more levels of detail within one visual. The simplest visualizations are line charts and bar charts. As we can see with line charts, it's showing us over time the number of cases. With a bar chart, you can see that there's the same representation but with bars. Heatmaps are more complex. It shows us not only the representation of the number, but also the density based on a color scale. It allows us to compare across categories or regions using color. A cartograph shows us the relationship between a value and a geographic location. And this allows us to compare data across geographic regions. Of course, this will also require having geo-coded data. And the level of specificity is only as good as the data that we have. And so if we do not have a certain level of information, we…

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