Tutorials and other useful resources
- About ChildObesity180
- About the Data Intensive Studies Center
- Science, Technology, and Society Lunch Seminar
- Tufts Data Lab Tutorials
- There are lots of GIS resources at the Data Lab for those of you interested in working with spatial data
- Tufts Data Lab Video Tutorials
- LinkedIn Learning at Tufts
- Tableau 10 Essential Training
- Python for Data Science Essential Training Part 1
- Data Visualization: Best Practices
- Community Commons
- Data and maps feature allows you to pull data layers into maps
- Lots of tools and resources on this site
- Description of current community health dashboards – pros and cons of what’s already out there assembled by Suzannah Gerber
Learn More about Childhood Obesity
- Celebrating change, accelerating progress: Short video from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Peer-reviewed article: Child and adolescent obesity: Part of a bigger picture
- Peer-reviewed article: A community intervention reduces BMI z‐score in children: Shape Up Somerville first year results
- Peer-reviewed article: Behavioral science at the crossroads in public health: extending horizons, envisioning the future
- Great section on taking a strengths-based approach to address childhood obesity – The Role of Social Work in the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Books and Articles
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication, by Alberto Cairo (available online from the Tufts library)
- How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures, by Claus Wilke (Available online from the Tufts library)
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte (Available in print from the Tufts library)
- Communicating with Interactive Articles (On interactive articles)
Workshop Recordings
- Recordings will be stored in Box once the event has started – https://tufts.box.com/s/vfiomk9zl5srj4w9bjfttvyxsn6gnpsi
Data Visualizations in the News
The 40 Weirdest (And Best) Charts We Made In This Long, Strange Year: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-40-weirdest-and-best-charts-we-made-in-2020/
This New York Times article has a nice range of examples of ways to communicate visually about data: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/22/upshot/upshot-at-five-years.html