When Anne Milgram became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, she quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their decisions were actually making the public safer. And so began her ongoing, inspirational quest to bring data analytics and statistical analysis to the US criminal justice system.
Data Visualization In a world of information overflow, Data Visualization is getting more and more important. Excel sheets tend to grow to a “wall of numbers” quickly. The information within its data is hard to recognize and understand. As David McCandless phrased it “Data is the new (s)oil” . It can be considered to be “a fertile, creative medium”. It allows us to “grow” visualizations from it or dig into it. We have to use smart tools and methods to make information easy to identify and understand for other humans. A lot of creativity is required to come up with insightful visualizations. They can even be considered a kind of art. We learned about the following best practices of data visualization: - Trends can be identified by timeline analysis - Ratios are well represented by space/area (people have no perception of ratios using numbers) - Storytelling is driving attention - Interactivity is driving engagement - Data Visualization can be b e a u t i f...
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