Effective Story Telling with Dynamic Data Visualizations

• Activity Number: 74 - Challenges and Approaches to Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2018 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
• Author(s): Ruth Hummel* and Mia Stephens
• Companies: SAS Institute, JMP Division and SAS Istitute, JMP Division
• Keywords: big data; data visualization; data-driven; case study; graphics; visualization

Abstract

In the era of big data there is no shortage of information. But real-world data can be noisy, messy, multidimensional and unwieldy, masking the information content in the data. Data visualization is a powerful way to see the information hidden in our data, to understand the story our collected data is trying to communicate to us. In this talk we explore a number of dynamic visualizations for multidimensional data, each providing a compelling platform to effectively communicate data-driven insights to stakeholders and other decision-makers in the health sciences.