Why is visualizing data vital to sexual violence prevention?
June 24, 2022
Article from National Sexual Violence Resource Center
“Previous to joining CDPHE, I’d worked in teaching/education and youth development spaces, so the idea of “What are you trying to say?” informs a lot of my presentations or workshops. In bringing this approach to our data and the ways we visualize it, I was able to cut out a lot of the noise and distractions that interfered with our key takeaways being fully useful, understood, and germinating conversations around violence prevention solutions and strategies. Basically, I was spending too much time explaining the data viz and not enough time connecting its meaning to human lives and experiences.”