Data Visualization August 2017

What makes a good infographic/visual? Does it have the right amount of information? Is it telling the story you want to tell? Should draw the eye Balance on the page http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/guidelines/how-to-design-infographics Is it easy to understand? Does your audience have to work to read it?

Resources https://venngage.com/blog/infographic-design/ Faster to process Easier to remember More appealing to visual learners https://visual.ly/10-rules-about-infographics

How does your team use data visualization?

What can we say? (1) 7 projects enabled nearly 180,000 people to reduce levels of food insecurity, a reduction of 24.5 percentage points - overall, CARE & partners contributed to food security for nearly 300,000 people 2 projects enabled over 4,500 (4,579) children under 5 to escape stunting - an average reduction of 8.1 percentage points (or 2.4 percentage points per year) 12 projects supported nearly 180,000 people to better build resilience to the effects of climate change - overall, CARE & partners contributed to climate change resilience for nearly 325,000 people 16 projects helped nearly 350,000 men, women, boys and girls take action to reduce their vulnerabilities to the drivers of shocks and stresses that affect them, an increase of 19.5 percentage points, helping improve the resilience of just under 1,375,000 people 12 projects enabled nearly 840,000 disaster-affected people (54% women & girls) to obtain adequate quantities & quality of food, and/or adopted adequate nutritional practices, and/or recovered household goods, assets, and/or income opportunities - supporting nearly 40% of all those in project areas with need of humanitarian support In 4 projects that surveyed those receiving humanitarian assistance, 59% reported being satisfied with the relevance, timeliness and accountability of humanitarian interventions (for women, the figure was 96%, in 2 projects that provided data disaggregated by sex) Will talk to Korinne about converting some of this to an infographic

What can we say? (2) 26 projects enabled over 190,000 women & girls to access informal financial services such as community savings & loans groups (VSLAs), an increase of 19.4 percentage points - overall, CARE & partners contributed to the economic empowerment for over 270,000 women & girls 7 projects enabled nearly 10,000 women to gain access to formal financial services, an increase of 24.7 percentage points 11 projects helped over 30,000 women participate equally in household financial decision-making, an increase of 12.9 percentage points (from 46.6% to 59.5%) - overall, CARE & partners contributed to nearly 115,000 women's control over economic resources 4 projects enabled over 7,000 people (over 5,200 women) to reject intimate partner violence, an increase of 15.9 percentage points (from 65.2% to 81.2%) 15 projects helped increase by over 75,000 the number of people who are meaningfully participating in formal and informal decision-making spaces (nearly 40,000 of whom were women & girls) - CARE & partners contributed to maintained or improved participation for over 100,000 people

Free/low cost tools Graphic design Canva Easel.ly Venngage Data visualization Tableau public Excel and more Excel tips Google

Questions to Ask Yourself When Creating Visuals Who is your audience? What actions do you want the visualizations to incite? What is your goal? Why do you want to present it? What data do you want to present? What is the best way to organize this information? How will you distribute this information? How can you make it easier to understand?

Let’s practice!

Questions? Contact Korinne Chiu at Korinne.chiu@care.org