Excel for Healthcare: Intro to Data Visualization

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A quick guide to data visualizations

Excel for Healthcarehttp://georgejmount.com/excelforhealthcare

“The Magical Number Seven, Plus One or Two”

Humans thrive at recognizing patterns

Don’t drown out your data in noise!

Minimize eyeball movement and processing• Gridlines• Legends• Labels• Borders• Data-to-ink ratio

The plane, boss! (The Cartesian plane.)

It’s easiest to process two-dimensional planar lengths.

That means no 3-D charts.

And no pie charts!

Definitely not 3-D!

Now time for some examples…