Data Visualisation By Best Practices Foundation

Brain and Processing Visuals Visual aids in classrooms improve learning by up to 400% - 3M Corporation, 2001 The brain processes visuals in 250 milliseconds Neurons responsible for visual activity take up approximately 30% of our total grey matter, while neurons for touch & hearing only 8% & 3% - The Power of Infographics by Mark Smiciklas Approximately 50% of our brain is dedicated (directly or indirectly) to visual functions 90 percent of information that comes to the brain is visual. – Hyerle, 2000 The brain processes visual information 60,000 faster than text. - 3M Corporation, 2001

What is Data Visualisation? A pictorial representation or display of data May take the form of an animation, a cloud, a map, a chart, or a simple picture Created by mashing up a data source (or sources) Source: ization

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Importance of Data Visualisation It conveys a message in a simple way

Importance of Data Visualisation Provides a good summary of information, data, & concepts Helps to maintain focus

Importance of Data Visualisation Breaks down concepts Makes it simple and easy to understand Improves decision making

Importance of Data Visualisation Takes less time to understand and read through Tackle the growing volume of data

Importance of Data Visualisation It is creative

Some Examples

Youth Groups  Participate in campaigns against child labour & children’s education  Train youth groups on RTE, child rights, child marriage, child labour & RTI  Monitoring  Resolving problems related to children’s needs Child Rights Protection Forums Teachers Forum for Child Rights  Mainstream & institutionalize quality & compulsory education  Create awareness of RTE  Provide training to other community groups Mahila Sanghas (SHGs)  Discuss child related issues in meetings  Be involved in labour abolition drives Children’s Committees  To encourage children to participate in school Gram Panchayats  Mobilise local resources  Presurring government to provide mandated infrastructure & resources School Management Committees  Conduct CCE  Negotiate with school authorities Stakeholders of the Project

Some Examples

Some supporting facts 65% of people are visual learners People following instructions with a visual element perform 323% better than those without 40% of people respond better to visuals information than to plain text 99% of all sensory data gets filtered out of the brain immediately. Visual data is in the 1% that remains Makes it easier to remember things

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The Rise of Infographics In just 2 years infographic search volumes has increased 200 % 200 % Percent 2 Years Years

In Conclusion… Do you think this dog is friendly? Would you pet it?