Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data

Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data

by Katherine Rowell, Lindsay Betzendahl, Cambria Brown
Released November 2020
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119680888

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Book description

The only data visualization book written by and for health and healthcare professionals.

In health and healthcare, data and information are coming at organizations faster than they can consume and interpret it. Health providers, payers, public health departments, researchers, and health information technology groups know the ability to analyze and communicate this vast array of data in a clear and compelling manner is paramount to success.  However, they simply cannot find experienced people with the necessary qualifications. The quickest (and often the only) route to meeting this challenge is to hire smart people and train them.

Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data: Creating Clear and Compelling Visualizations to "See how You're Doing" is a one-of-a-kind book for health and healthcare professionals to learn the best practices of data visualization specific to their field. It provides a high-level summary of health and healthcare data, an overview of relevant visual intelligence research, strategies and techniques to gather requirements, and how to build strong teams with the expertise required to create dashboards and reports that people love to use. Clear and detailed explanations of data visualization best practices will help you understand the how and the why.

  • Learn how to build beautiful and useful  data products that deliver powerful insights for the end user
  • Follow along with examples of data visualization best practices, including table and graph design for health and healthcare data
  • Learn the difference between dashboards, reports, multidimensional exploratory displays and infographics (and why it matters)
  • Avoid common mistakes in data visualization by learning why they do not work and better ways to display the data

Written by a top leader in the field of health and healthcare data visualization, this book is an excellent resource for top management in healthcare, as well as entry-level to experienced data analysts in any health-related organization.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. SECTION ONE: Establishing a Framework and Process
    1. Chapter One: Health and Healthcare Data Visualizations of Historical Importance
    2. Chapter Two: Stop Hunting Unicorns and Start Building Teams and Know The Data
      1. Search for Characteristics and Core Competencies
      2. Get to Know the Data
      3. Classifications, Intent, Purpose, and Lineage
      4. Two Types of Data
      5. Scales/Levels of Measure
      6. Summary
    3. Chapter Three: Requirements-Gathering and Design Methods
      1. Design Thinking Foundational Concepts
      2. Design Methods
      3. Contextual Inquiry
      4. Mental Models
      5. Personas
      6. Persona Creation Guide
      7. Graphic Organizers
      8. Sketching
      9. Prototyping
      10. Testing
      11. Summary
  4. SECTION TWO: Perceiving the Best Practices of Data Visualization
    1. Chapter Four: The Research
      1. Research Informs Data Visualization Best Practices
      2. Summary
    2. Chapter Five: Table Design Checklist
      1. Fundamentals of Table Design
      2. Summary
    3. Chapter Six: Powerful Visualizations in Four Shapes
      1. Bars, Lines, Points, and Boxes
      2. Shape One: Bars
      3. Using Bars To: See How You're Doing
      4. Shape Two: Lines
      5. Using Lines To: See How You're Doing
      6. Shape Three: Points
      7. Using Points To: See How You're Doing
      8. Shape Four: Boxes
      9. Using Boxes To: See How You're Doing
      10. Other Shapes
      11. Summary
    4. Chapter Seven: Maps
      1. Using Maps to Gain Insights
      2. When Not to Use a Map
      3. Summary
    5. Chapter Eight: Graphs and Charts to Never Use or Use with Caution
      1. When “Cool Displays” Are Anything But
      2. Pie and Donut Charts
      3. Multiples of Several-Part Stacked Bar Charts (MSPSBCs)
      4. Bubble Charts
      5. Treemaps
      6. Marimekko (Mekko or Mosaic) Charts
      7. Radial Bar and Petal Charts
      8. Radar Charts
      9. Sankey Diagrams
      10. One More Thing: 3-D
      11. Summary
    6. Chapter Nine: Making Accessible Visualizations
      1. Accessible Design Is Good Design
      2. Accessibility in Data Visualization
      3. Ways to Make Accessible Data Visualizations
      4. Summary
  5. SECTION THREE: Creating Compelling Data Displays
    1. Chapter Ten: Dashboards, Reports, and Multidimensional Exploratory Displays (MEDs™)
      1. Definitions Matter
      2. Dashboards
      3. Reports
      4. Multidimensional Exploratory Displays (MEDs™)
      5. MEDs™ Defined
      6. Summary
    2. Chapter Eleven: Infographics
      1. “No Tobacco Day” Infographic
      2. Measles and Vaccinations Infographic
      3. Infographic vs. Infoposter
      4. Summary
  6. SECTION FOUR: Closing Thoughts and Recommended Reading and Resources
    1. Closing Thoughts
      1. Fluency and Mastery
    2. Bitten by the Viz Bug | Recommended Reading and Resources
      1. Recommended Reading
      2. Resources
      3. Accessibility Resources
  7. Author Bios
  8. References
    1. Introduction
    2. Chapter 3
    3. Chapter 4
    4. Chapter 6
    5. Chapter 7
    6. Chapter 8
    7. Chapter 9
    8. Chapter 10
    9. Chapter 11
    10. Closing Thoughts
  9. Index
  10. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data
  • Author(s): Katherine Rowell, Lindsay Betzendahl, Cambria Brown
  • Release date: November 2020
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119680888