Simple Presentation of Complex Data Mark Gregor, President

Simple Presentation of Complex Data Kidsdata.org – Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health Site Focus: Provides statistical data and resources on the well-being of children in California, focusing on Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. –Expose available data at a very high level (on the home page). –Provide one or two click access to data and reports by region and by topic. –Give the user data then let them control it with clear, context sensitive controls. –Provide associated prose material in-context with the data. –Allow re-use of the data for off-line purposes.

State Health Facts – The Kaiser Family Foundation Site Focus: Provides health data on all 50 states, allowing easy ranking and comparison reports on over 500 indicators. –Project clear sense of available data and regions covered. –Consider scalability of site during UI design. Growth since 2002: 500+ indicators. –Hierarchical display of indicators, available from all pages. –Medicaid Fact Sheets: Re-use of data for specialized needs or audiences. Dynamic PDF generation. Simple Presentation of Complex Data

Global Health Facts – The Kaiser Family Foundation Site Focus: Provides HIV, TB, and Malaria data for every country in the world. Focus is on mapping and rankings. –Emphasis on global data, exposed on the home page as an interactive map. –Many regions pose UI challenges. Solutions are map as UI convention, zooms, and predictive type-ahead for country selection. –Provide robust printing options (color, hatch, etc.) –Syndicate branded site content to promote and market the site to new audiences. Simple Presentation of Complex Data