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The Iron Viz first-place Top Video Games dashboard, designed by Plotts and Mayman, features visualizations for analyzing the astir fashionable video games by age, by gender, and by the youngest victors. The dashboard besides includes a fashionable About the Data tab.Key takeaways:
- A caller contest, modeled aft Iron Viz, the world’s largest information visualization competition, was held to assistance the Patient Technology astatine Mott.
- The lawsuit was sponsored by PTERADACTYL, a assemblage of signifier that stands for People of the Extraordinarily Roundaboutedly Acronymed Data Analytics Club That You Love.
- The winning squad looked astatine which video games were astir fashionable among patients astatine Mott.
Michigan Medicine’s PTERADACTYL* assemblage of signifier for information analysts sponsored its 2nd yearly Iron Viz contest, held online this past December.
The contention is modeled aft Tableau’s Iron Viz — the world’s largest information visualization competition. In the aforesaid mode that television’s Iron Chefs effort to crook themed ingredients into look masterpieces, Iron Viz participants absorption connected making information investigation much digestible — and much importantly, actionable — done easy-to-interpret, insightful dashboards.
The challenge
Participants for this year’s contention were challenged with processing dashboards to assistance the Patient Technology Department astatine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital with their therapeutic gaming and integer exertion initiative.
This section is committed to enhancing the diligent acquisition and supporting healing done the originative usage of gaming and emerging exertion platforms.
By providing respective years of de-identified information for the Iron Viz contest, the extremity was to person utile analytics successful the signifier of visualizations to bespeak what’s moving and wherever improvements tin beryllium made successful their gaming exertion approach.
The teams
Team #1, consisting of concern quality developer Justin Litzner and concern quality analysts Gary Jankowski and Roberto Guzman, focused their visualizations connected Lego-related games and kits utilized by Mott patients.
Team #2, composed of manager Beth Plotts and concern systems expert Gillian Mayman, delved into Mott’s video crippled information to make their visualizations.
On the time of the competition, some teams presented their dashboards to the 50+ distant attendees astatine the PTERADACTYL meeting, past judges and assemblage members had the accidental to inquire questions earlier voting for their favorites.
Team #1 decided to disagreement and conquer, with Litzner focusing connected the visualization development, Jankowski digging into the data, and Guzman sharing ideas and reviewing their work.
Litzner explained his visualization approach: “For Iron Viz, I similar to effort things I’ve seen but haven’t worked with, visualizations that could beryllium absorbing oregon fun.”
That’s however helium arrived astatine incorporating a Sankey diagram for his team’s archetypal visualization — a diagram benignant utilized to picture a travel and narration from 1 acceptable of values to another. “I anticipation what we tried tin beryllium utile to the Patient Technology squad and provides an illustration for different analysts astir what you tin execute utilizing Tableau,” Litzner said.
The LEGO dashboard, designed by Litzner, Jankowski and Guzman, includes visualizations for analyzing the projects by idiosyncratic oregon by the apical 10 selected projects. It besides features a LEGO Jokes tab.Asked what prompted Team #2 to absorption connected video crippled data, Plotts explained, “Normally erstwhile you bash an analysis, you commencement with a question oregon a occupation from the customer. In this lawsuit we were fixed the flexibility of looking astatine thing we recovered interesting.”
Having 2 kids of her own, Plotts was funny astir what games Mott’s youngest patients liked to play.
According to Mayman, “We were initially funny successful the elemental question of which games were astir fashionable with the patients. But it was rapidly evident determination were sex differences regarding which patients played games and which games they chose to play.”
As a result, Team #2 chose to make visualizations that highlighted the apical 10 games arsenic good arsenic the astir fashionable games by sex and age.
The feedback
The judges for this year’s contention included Addison Neely, from Tableau, and 3 representatives from the Patient Technology Department: J.J. Bouchard, Conner Rivera and Dylan Lester. Prior to picking a favorite, each of the judges voiced their wide impressions of the 2 dashboard submissions.
The judges archetypal shared their feedback of Team #1’s Lego-inspired dashboard.
“I americium a large instrumentality of Sankey diagrams,” Neely admitted aft seeing Team #1 usage this flow-type diagram successful its archetypal visualization. “The graphics were amazing,” she added astir the team’s dashboard successful general.
“I enjoyed seeing what devices were being picked astir and if the unit was having an interaction connected what was picked,” Bouchard said aft seeing Team #1’s archetypal 2 visualizations. And each the judges agreed the team’s Jokes tab was a amusive addition.
Upon reviewing Team #2’s video games dashboard visualizations, the judges’ statement was that everything was precise wide and it was casual to archer what the metrics meant.
Lester and Neely were some impressed with Team #2’s About the Data page.
“About the Data gets a 10 retired of 10,” Neely remarked. “From a champion signifier standpoint, that was solid.”
The colour prime successful Team #2’s Most Popular Games by Gender visualization was besides appreciated. Judges liked the reddish and blue, noting that successful summation to matching the Mario Kart game, reddish and bluish are besides accepted colors for subordinate 1 and subordinate 2 successful online games.
Commenting astir the Tableau results successful general, Rivera said, “I emotion immoderate instrumentality you utilized to make some of these dashboards. I was impressed by however you were capable to streamline the information and marque it understandable.”
The victors
When it was clip for the judges to denote a victor [drumroll please] their verdict was — a tie! To interruption the tie, the PTERADACTYL facilitators turned to gathering attendees to ballot connected The People’s Choice.
A pop-up online survey was provided for each to complete. Even then, the ballot was close, but Team #2 slid into archetypal spot with their Top Video Games dashboard receiving winning votes from 55% of survey respondents.
Congratulations to Team #2’s Beth Plotts and Gillian Mayman, the PTERADACTYL Iron Viz champions for 2022!
*PTERADACTYL (People of the Extraordinarily Roundaboutedly Acronymed Data Analytics Club That You Love) is simply a assemblage of signifier (CoP) for information analysts crossed Michigan Medicine. The group, which presently averages astir 60-70 attendees, meets regularly to stock ideas and champion practices surrounding information and analytics. PTERADACTYL has been progressive for much than 5 years.
To beryllium added to the CoP’s gathering invitation and email list, delight email dataconcierge@med.umich.edu.
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