Storytelling with Data – How Healthy Are We?

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Storytelling through data visualization can dramatically enhance our ability to think about the meaning within data. The connection between vision and cognition is powerful. In this course we will explore the fundamentals of discovering and presenting the story that lies within the data that we wish to tell. We will do this in the context of health care and public health in the United States. Along the way we will explore some common data sets about health care and public health, and we will learn to recognize the strengths and shortcomings of current data visualizations we see in academic settings and the mainstream and social media.