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Data visualisation
@olliecarrington
Oliver Carrington
Impact & Evaluation Manager,
Imperial Health Charity
How funders can use it for
insights & communication
@imperialcharity
What is data visualisation?
• A catch-all term for presenting information
in a visual way
• Aim to be a clear & engaging way to help
people better understand data
• It isn’t new, but the public has an
increasing appetite for it
Data viz gives life to stats
Types of data visualisation
Three key types:
1. Static images, charts & infographics
2. Interactive dashboards
3. Animations & videos
Dashboards
Charts
Animations
Dashboards
Charts
Animations
Dashboards
Charts
Animations
How can funders use it?
Two top reasons:
1. Communications & policy—help explain
or highlight our complicated work
2. Find insights & trends from grants—help
us make decisions
Insights
Comms
Green Funders – Where the green grants went edition 7
https://www.greenfunders.org/where-the-green-grants-went-7
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales - 2018 Impact Report
https://www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/2018%20%20Impact%20Report.pdf
Insights
Comms
Guys and St Thomas Charity - Tableau dashboard Southwark health data
https://public.tableau.com/profile/rob.parker7879#!/vizhome/Spacethefinalfrontier/Introduction
David Kane and 360Giving - Who is funding with who?
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/155633/
Software
Check out the chart maker directory: www.chartmaker.visualisingdata.com/
Do it well: Find the story
• Ensure the data is credible
• Start with a research question
• Let the data guide you—use conditioning,
filters & pivot tables to spot patterns
• Develop the data—change groupings, add
in averages, difference between values
• Sketch it out first—without restrictions
Don’t give too many messages in one chart
Refocus the data to highlight a key message
Do it well: Design tips
• Design is not just for external audiences—
for colleagues you also need to make it
clear & keep them engaged
• Keep it simple—a bar chart is often best
• Everything has to be deliberate, justifiable
& explainable
How to improve this Excel chart…
3D charts are misleading
Always start a bar chart Y-axis at zero
Delete any ‘chart junk’
Label directly on your chart
Horizontal bars can fit long category names
Reduce the gap width to look less ‘Excel-y’
Order by size (or time/age groupings)
Colour should be used deliberately
Colour can draw people’s attention
Re-title your chart with the key message
Resources
Nightingalewww.medium.com/nightingale
Guardian Data Blogwww.theguardian.com/data
The Puddingwww.pudding.cool/
Blogs
Resources
www.datastori.es www.dataviztoday.comwww.storytellingwithdata.com/
podcast
Podcasts
Resources
www.flickr.com/gp/167769222@N02
Charity DataViz
examples
My Flickr account
of charity dataviz
examples to help
spark new ideas
Case Study: How to plot your
grants against deprivation
Patrick O’KellySenior Grants Officer
The Clothworkers’ Foundation
@okellypjO
@clothworkersfdn
@ClothworkersFdnwww.clothworkersfoundation.org.ukCharity No: 274100
• Medium-sized capital funder
• UK-wide
• Disadvantaged communities
@ClothworkersFdnwww.clothworkersfoundation.org.ukCharity No: 274100
Are we doing what we set
out to do?
@ClothworkersFdnwww.clothworkersfoundation.org.ukCharity No: 274100
• flourish.studio
• 360Giving Data
• English Indices of Deprivation 2019
public.flourish.studio/visualisation/668825
@ClothworkersFdnwww.clothworkersfoundation.org.ukCharity No: 274100
• Our grants reach most areas of England
• Over two thirds of our grants reached the
50% most deprived areas
• Open data: our data is more accessible
(potential applicants, grantees, funders)
Is it useful?
@ClothworkersFdnwww.clothworkersfoundation.org.ukCharity No: 274100
• Only shows area-based disadvantage
• Uses registered postcode of the charity
Limitations?