Public Health

I took Andy Kriebel’s Makeover Monday challenge a step further by creating a quick tutorial on how to present a dashboard. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a comprehensive resource on this topic online, so I’m hoping other netizens will find this helpful. Presenting a dashboard, especially when it’s compact like a one-page overview, requires a structured approach to convey insights effectively and keep the audience engaged. A typical presentation time for this kind of dashboard is around 15-20 minutes, as this provides enough time to cover the dashboard’s key elements without overwhelming your audience....

Context From 2020 to 2021, I volunteered at the COVID Tracking Project, where our efforts significantly enhanced the accuracy of data collection in the USA. By auditing, compiling, and analyzing sub-national, daily data sources, we delivered accurate, real-time insights to government officials. Our team built over 50 collaborative datasets and corrected inconsistencies in more than 40,000 data points, informing life-saving national testing and immunization strategies to combat COVID-19. Dashboard This dashboard, inspired by Alex the Analyst, exemplifies the impact of our work in providing reliable data that informed public health decisions worldwide, playing a crucial role in creating transparent and globally accessible COVID-19 statistics....