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CT Kids Count Data Stories

Devan Suggs ‘17 and Emmanuel Adero, Connecticut Association for Human Services, Trinity College DataViz presentation, April 2017

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Vision

Telling a story of “Race and Place” in Connecticut

  • CT Kids Count
  • Race and Place in Connecticut
  • “Five Connecticuts”

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Process (1)

Finding and showing storylines in our data

  • Race and Place - Finding Storylines in our Data
  • Comparison of Indicators
    • Education, Economics, Health, Family & Community
  • Charting with Tableau Public

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Process (2)

Converting Data for Use with Tableau Public

  • Organizing Data into “Tableau-friendly” master spreadsheet

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Process (3)

Charting with Tableau Public

  • Created x-y scatter plots comparing indicators

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Process (4)

Creating Stories with Tableau Public

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Reflections

  • Data Difficulties
    • Collection & Suppression
  • Analyzing Data for Relationships
    • Providing Answers vs. Prompting Questions