Background and presentation Slides for James Nicholson

From James Nicholson:

We have now uploaded visualisations of all the DC tables released on May 16 to the website www.smartcensus.org.uk

This is still a work in progress in the sense of these only display data for E&W, and only for 2011 data, and the displays can only be run live on the web - not captured and run off line or embedded in pdf documents etc. We also know there are (major) things to do about colour and other presentational (aesthetic) aspects.

Most of the displays are showing number, but this one shows %s - http://www.smartcensus.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=569

The number versions had obvious issues about scaling, and what we have done is to open each one with the scale derived from the overall maximum i.e. whatever combination of factor levels you look at the data can be shown fully - but this means that with other combinations you can hardly see anything - and certainly not make any comparisons, so we have a 'y-zoom' facility - we would be interested to hear your views on how this works (and whether you think the choice of showing the full bar 'faded' is the best way of showing instances where the number of people exceeds the vertial scale limit? - we felt that just showing it at the top in standard colour was misleading and leaving it out was not much better - perhaps even worse ...).

We are now at a stage where we can consider bespoke versions of a small number of these - which can include extending them to include different geographies and / or previous census data, and particularly we can include text on screen, and different tabs - so we can have that Long-term Health Problem or Disability by General Health by Sex by Age display with numbers, as is shown here (with the disability / limit button fixed at top left - because that is what the %s are of), and even other % versions - e.g % of males / females in any demographic group defined by gen health / disability and age - or of gen health levels or an age distribution - I don't imagine all of these would be of interest, but all are possible. If you are interested in this please contact James Nicholson at j.r.nicholson@durham.ac.uk

The presentation slides can be downloaded here