Worth a Thousand Words: How to Display Health Data

Data on Display
What is the story you want to tell with your health data? This guide offers examples and tools for creating compelling data visualizations. Among the many tips offered: To communicate findings and implications from data, take them out of their native spreadsheet or database and conduct an analysis that goes beyond a simple flat format. And when making data available to the public, enable others to create their own data displays by offering a data download or, even better, an API into the data.
The complete guide is available as a Document Download.

Read more: http://www.chcf.org/publications/2014/02/worth-thousand-words-data#ixzz2uKicgtAp

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