{"id":605,"date":"2017-03-01T21:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/?p=605"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:36:59","slug":"importance-data-visualization-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/importance-data-visualization-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Data Visualization in Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sage Spotlight on Data Visualization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The February issue of Sage Publishing\u2019s newsletter, <em>Sage Methods Minute,<\/em> presents useful guidance on understanding and managing data visualization in making effective decisions. The newsletter offers a lecture, interview, and webinar on this important but often neglected topic. Productive data-based decisions rely on the effective use of analytics and the acquisition, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. In an increasingly complicated world in which vast quantities of data are available, it is essential that educators become astute in presenting data adapted to different audiences and in identifying deceptive data so they are able to make wise decisions in the service of educating children. The Sage Spotlight newsletter on visualization includes <em>Tailoring Data Visualization to Reach Different Audiences<\/em> by Tom Schenk; <em>Textbooks in Data Visualization: 60 Seconds with Andy Kirk;<\/em> and <em>Webinar: Learn the Essentials of Data Visualization<\/em> by Andy Kirk and Stephanie Evergreen. For those interested in additional resources on this topic, the works of Edward Tufte, professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University, and Howard Wainer, adjunct professor of statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, provide insight in how to deliver information that communicates your message.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sage February Newsletter<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/info.sagepub.com\/q\/17I2b2bhfM2Fc8adzqeF1h\/wv\">http:\/\/info.sagepub.com\/q\/17I2b2bhfM2Fc8adzqeF1h\/wv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Tufte<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\">https:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard Wainer<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Howard-Wainer\/e\/B000AP7SUU\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Howard-Wainer\/e\/B000AP7SUU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sage Spotlight on Data Visualization The February issue of Sage Publishing\u2019s newsletter, Sage Methods Minute, presents useful guidance on understanding and managing data visualization in making effective decisions. 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