Open gkjohn opened 10 years ago
vinayakh
commented
10 years ago +1 To banning all pie charts. I had also mentioned this before. We should do that in the new reports instead we should use bar charts for side-by-side comparison and stacked bar charts for showing variance in components. Serious data visualisation never users bar charts.
vinayakh
commented
10 years ago Also cost per unit would be useful for things we have finance data on. This will give rise to fairer comparison. So many times derived metrics make for very good comparison such as dropout rate per year per 1000 students enrolled. If I am given a absolute number it hard to compare such metrics. We need to think a little bit more about this. This is great feedback.
"The vertical silos of demography/finance/infra are good as a first cut, but a lot of the value and insights will come from metrics that cut across these verticals. I'm very curious about the spread of unit costs on education, infrastructure and other items. A map embed in the reports would not go amiss. Please ban all pie charts. You can easily replace all with bar graphs and have happier readers. In general, I would say that reports of this nature provide two kinds of information: descriptive and analytical. Both are necessary. Right now, the reports are heavy on the descriptive and quite light on the analytical. It might not be a bad idea to separate the two, and list down the former in an easy table or something. Visualisation may not necessarily add value to the descriptive stats, but simply make them more "pretty". This way, with the analytical information, you may have the luxury of going after the precise metric that favours analysis or comparison, and in the form that is most accessible. For example: if I want to look at the differences in gender enrollment, you can simply display the number of girls there are in school for every 1000 boys. The resulting number there of 9xx is something that is easily comparable to other 9xx figures in everyone's minds."