Visualizing Data for Social Good: A Hands-on Workshop
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Health programs and decision makers are routinely swimming in data. While we often invest time in analyzing and understanding what the data says, less effort is made around understanding who our audience is, how they interact with information, and designing visualizations that communicate effectively..
Transforming raw data and analytic outputs into simple, impactful visuals helps you clearly communicate with policymakers, journalists, and decisionmakers who often have very limited time to review your documents. In this workshop, we’ll walk through a series of simple steps for identifying your visualization type and designing your visualization, learn from visualization examples from Amanda’s work around the work, and practice designing clear, impactful graphs, charts ,and other visualizations.
MPH students who work with data, are expected to build presentations and reports, and who have limited experience in graphic design will find this workshop useful. A basic understanding of Microsoft Excel and a laptop are required for the hands-on part of the workshop.
*Note: this workshop will qualify as a required practicum workshop for those looking to fulfill that requirement. Attendance will betaken at the workshop.
Amanda Makulec, MPH
Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor—Visual Analytics
Amanda has six years of experience working in data visualization design, health analytics, and health communication. Her work has included both community and national level programs, with an emphasis on building staff capacity in using data to support decision making through data visualization and data use. Ms. Makulec has contributed to the visualization and design of numerous reports, dashboards, and communications materials to ensure results and ideas are communicated effectively for multiple donors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, GAVI, and the Global Fund, as well as supported developing communication approaches for projects working at the national and community levels.
As an advisor for JSI’s Center for Health Information, Monitoring & Evaluation, she provides technical assistance related to M&E and policy communication to projects as needed, manages M&E-related communications, and contributes to strategic development of new business. Ms. Makulec has supported monitoring, evaluation, and communication program activities in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe, and holds a BA in Zoology and Sociology from Miami University and an MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health.
You can contact Amanda via email (amanda_makulec@jsi.com) with any follow up questions after the session.
