Using Visualizing Health

Viz Health

It's a pretty beginner-friendly tool for making data visualizations. While Canva and Google Slides are simple to use as well, this site seems to be directed specifically at the use of data visualization. Making it even easier to make them, while also exploring new ideas. 

Risk Calculator

While inserting some data into the risk calculator, it seems that each portion of data that is going to be considered is going to impact the data visualization. Factoring into the percentage risk, the data succumbs to. I chose the lowest data for the first time to see what I’d get. The risk was at 2% and I ended up in the green section. In my second attempt, shown below, I chose the more extreme data presented, which made me end up with the maximum 30%, which makes total sense, leaving me in the red section. I’m going to assume that if I were to mix and match some low and high data, I would end up between the two results I got from my attempts. This reminds me of the personality quizzes I take.

(Second attempt for the Risk Calculator)

Icon Array-Generator

Moving on to the next section, I messed around with the Icon Array-generator. At first, there were many options available, which made me think it was gonna be a big hassle, but in the end, it wasn’t. I dove into making a chart about dogs. Dogs understand 20 words out of 100 words humans use, which I thought was really cool. I have three dogs, and they seem to only understand the basic phrases like paw, sit, and cage. 20 words is still a good amount out of 100; they're pretty smart animals. Anyways, I had to fix some of my vocabulary for my chart because, for some reason, it was difficult to phrase the legend texts. I wanted it to be short and sweet, but as you can see from the provided screenshot posted below, I struggled with it. I don’t think there’s a feature that would allow me to remove the “# out of #”, which I find annoying. I think it interrupts the flow of the chart and makes it look a bit cluttered at the bottom.

Conclusion

The site is pretty solid, the risk calculator showing me that data like that could be pretty valuable, informing people about serious issues that should be looked out for. Answering questions and getting the results back fast is cool; it shows the potential data visualizations have! The Icon Array-generator is a good resource for learning about data visualization as well. It allows you to mess with the data, colors, and icons, allowing you creative freedom. 

Sources Used:

http://www.vizhealth.org/