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>> Good afternoon, my name is Vanessa
and I will be your conference operator today.
At this time I would like to welcome everyone
to the Social Media Monday, Visualization Tools,
Making Your Data Come Alive [inaudible] webinar.
All lines have been placed on mute
to prevent any background noise.
After the speaker's remarks there will be a question
and answer session.
If you would like to ask a question during this time simply
press star, then number one on your telephone keypad.
If you would like to withdraw your question press the pound
key, thank you.
I will now like to turn the call
over to Mrs. Suzanne Kanisnor [phonetic].
Go ahead ma'am.
>> Thank you Vanessa and hi, everyone.
Thank you for joining us for today's Social Media Monday,
Visual Tools, Making Your Data Come Alive.
I am Suzanne Kanisnor the project coordinator
for Campaign Consultation
and I will be running the tech end of this presentation.
Before we get started with the presentation I do want to go
over a few nitty-gritty details including
if you lose either your internet
or phone connection please simply log back on or call back
in as you originally did and you will automatically be reentered
into the presentation and pick up where you left off.
Also I want everyone to know
that this presentation is being recorded
and that all links presented during the presentation will be
available at the end.
Now I'll turn it over to Michelle Bond, Project Manager
for Campaign Consultation who will introduce today's speakers.
>> Thanks Suzanne, hi everyone and welcome, thank you so much
for joining us this afternoon.
As Suzanne said my name is Michelle,
I am with Campaign Consultation, a training
and technical assistant provider for Americorps Vista
and the Corporation for National Service.
With us today is Danielle Ricks, our social media specialist here
at Campaign Consultation.
I'll start off by just talking a little bit
about Social Media Monday for those of you who are new,
seeing a lot of new names out there which is fantastic.
Social Media Monday now has been going for almost two years
and what we do is every other month aim
to bring you social media tools not only in what they are
and how to use them but how to use them specifically
for your Vista service.
The idea is to provide hands on access to these platforms,
a little description about what the different media are used for
and how you might be able to directly use them to do the work
that you're doing at your sites
so when ever possible we have technology experts
and often times those are Vistas or Vista alums
who have used these specific platforms to do work
at their service sites.
So again thank you so much for joining us, we are excited
to get started today and we're going to do that by kicking off
with a little poll just to see where everyone is at so
if you would on the bottom right hand portion
of your screen there should be an opportunity
to just select answers to these brief four questions
if you would go ahead and do that then we'll come back
to those shortly and just get a sense
of what every one is looking for on today's call.
So while you do that I'm going to turn it
over to Danielle to get us started.
>> Thanks so much Michelle,
as Michelle said I am the social media specialist
for Campaign Consultation and we've worked very hard
on this presentation for you and we're
so glad that you joined us.
We've got some wonderful information to share
with you all so while you're taking a look at the poll
and answering those questions I just want to go
over the agenda with you.
Today we're going to explain data visualization,
just what does that mean and we're going
to introduce infographics.
If you have not had an opportunity
to see what an infographic is or you haven't seen any fun ones
or you're not exactly sure how you could use it we're going
to give you some examples of ways
that you can use these towards your presentation
and to share large bits of information and data.
We're going to talk about traditional graphics
as you know them and the difference between the two,
traditional graphics and infographics and I want to talk
about different ways to think about communication and sharing
so will look at the data visualization,
we'll look at infographics,
we'll look at traditional graphics
and then we'll have a little brainstorming session
where we can think about how could you use some
of these things in your service and how could we help you figure
out how to manage through those large pieces of data
and information that you have.
We'll be sure to leave some time for question and answers,
we hope to get through everything
and all your questions in this web shop,
if we do not we encourage you
to please visit the Vista campus we will have an extended
conversation about this and we'll provide those links
for you later on in the web shop.
Suzanne are we ready for the poll
or shall we keep going...keep going all right.
What is data visualization, it is a graphical presentation
of information and the main goal of data visualization is
to communicate information, clearly and effectively
through graphical means.
Now that doesn't mean the data has to look boring
to be functional or extremely sophisticated.
I know you're thinking well I don't have a graphic artist
on staff so how do I do this.
We're going to show you different ways to do this
and things that you probably never even thought
of to make your data pop and come alive.
What we do when we think about data visualization is think
about visual communications.
The things that you would normally communicate
in a document, the things that you would normally communicate
in a presentation but we're going to show you different ways
to do it that will be creative, it will stick in your mind
and that's really the thing when we talk
about visual communication, how can you present data
that is going to stay with people, large volumes of data
that we all deal with every day, how can you do that
and make sure that people remember it
because if you share data with them and they don't remember it,
it doesn't do any good.
We're trying to really get people to think about the things
that we want to share with them.
So let's go on and let's talk about infographics.
If we could [inaudible] forward to the next one...infographics,
data visualization is closely related to infographics
and are you all seeing what I'm seeing,
I'm still on the same slide.
Hold on one second guys...back up just one, slide number 10.
Data visualization is related to infographic
or information graphic for infographics.
Information graphics or infographics now I'm using a lot
of words that all sound the same so stay with me here.
Information graphics or infographics it's information
that shares the graphical visual representation.
So it could be information or data of knowledge,
these graphics present complex information we hope quickly
and clearly.
So if you look at this when there's a lot
of content there the signs, maps technical writing, education all
of these things can be expressed in an infographic.
Let's fast forward to slide number 10
and asking the question why infographics.
Well, there re a variety of conventional ways
to visualize data and what we typically know about our tables,
pie charts, we've all seen a thousand pie charts
and bar graphics, we've seen a thousand bar graphics
to relate information but the main goal
of data visualization aside from the graphics
and there's nothing wrong with traditional graphics by the way
but aside from the traditional graphics,
data visualization is the ability to visualize data
and communicate information clearly and effectively
and as I said that doesn't mean that the data has to be boring
to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful.
In infographics if you look
at this particular slide we're talking
about traditional documents for infographics
so a traditional document is written, it's interpreted,
it's...the concepts are open to misinterpretation often times.
Often times it's hard to read because it's
so much information you can't digest it all
and it's not very engaging, it's one way communication.
An alternative and the way we look
at infographics now you can take that same information,
that large body of information and it can be illustrated
and it allows the audience to experience it
and people can connect visually and therefore they come
up with different ideas and different view points
on the same amount of information
and it's more engaging.
You can look at those two sides of that one slide
to just compare and figure
out when I'm doing something how can I take something
as a written traditional document and then turn it
over to something on the other side
as an alternative document using infographs
or data visualization.
It looks like the polls are ready and Suzanne is going
to tell us what we have in our web shop
and how we can better help you today.
>> Okay, well it looks like the majority of you are involved
in gathering and sharing data closely followed
by communications and that many of you have discovered new ways
of sharing the information and that most
of you are not using infographics and that the tools
that you currently use include Excel, Powerpoint,
Adobe and something else in that order.
>> Well that's great, you've come to the right web shop,
we've got some great stuff for you then so we are glad you're
with us because we're going to push you
out of your comfort zone a little bit
and show you different ways to look at data
but before we go there, Michelle's going to talk
to us a little bit about traditional graphic examples
because those are still good, we don't want to throw those
out the window, they're still good and they still can be used.
>> That's right Danielle and I think particularly when we talk
about a lot of social media platforms right now,
so then if you could advance me of a second, while she's getting
that set up we talk about traditional graphics and so
in this case we'll be looking shortly
at a traditional pie chart or a bar graph
and we've talked internally a lot
about how these are familiar tools for people
and you're right they're not going completely
by the wayside especially when it comes to social media tools.
Often times because social media is still an emerging universe
it's helpful to show something in terms that people are used
to so something like a pie graph can really help
to show your impact and your ROI when it comes
to your social media plan and the outreach that you're doing.
There are a lot of platforms that continue
to use these traditional graphics and images and so
when you think about your social media role don't forget them.
What we're looking at right now is a snapshot from bitly
which is an aggregator that can provide these...what is it
on a weekly or a monthly basis.
>> Yeah, weekly, monthly or every 90 days is
as far out as it will go.
>> Right so when you're doing something
like this it's important to factor this into your plan
so that you don't have to go all the way back
or you can't go all the way back beyond 90 days so you want
to make sure if you are building out a social media plan
that you leave benchmarks in there for when you're going
to go capture the data
after every month is a good rule of thumb to go by.
Then the next slide you can see something I'm sure you're all
familiar with which is Facebook insights and this is just one
of the examples Facebook can even help you illustrate
in terms of line graphs there how you're outreach is making an
impact so you can see in this particular snapshot you've got
the number of likes, the number of likes over lifetime
and then the number of monthly active users.
We can go back and say wow when is this,
this is from June we had five thousand active users,
that's incredible what were we doing then,
what types of messages were we sending out,
what types of content were we posting.
I mean you get a quick idea of that impact
and so these traditional graphics are great when it comes
to telling your social media story and that's just one part
of it as we'll go through the rest of the day today and talk
about how we can use some of these tools in conjunction
with these other new ways
of visualizing the impact that you have.
>> Great so let's go ahead and advance the slide
and what Michelle was showing you were the traditional places
and the traditional ways that we look at data.
We're used to seeing the pie charts,
we're used to seeing the bar graphs and what we want to talk
about today are different ways
to show data, so let's get to it.
I'm going to...Suzanne is going to give me rights
and then I'm going to share my desk top to you...with you
and I'm going to show you aq couple
of sites and so here we go.
Yes, so I did not share my desk top so hold on folks,
Suzanne is coaching me through this.
We'll do it in one second, there we go.
Everyone, can you see what I see,
great there we go these are four useful...actually we're going
to start with the 20 inspiring uses of data visualization
and again these links available to you in the body
of the web shop and the slides when you get to them
in the archive and again they'll be available at the end
of this particular web shop
and we'll also post them in the chat for you.
This is a great site that I like, Twenty Inspiring Uses
of Data Visualization.
It explains data visualization and what they are
with great examples and I want to point out two particular ones
and this is doodlebuzz.com, doodlebuzz.com and if you
like to doodle this is a great place for you to go.
You can click on here and you can put on a topic
and so we're going to put in poverty and you click go
and it's searching for news for poverty.
Then you just sort of doodle
and when you're done doodling it will show you different articles
in different ways on that particular topic.
You can scroll over it and it will highlight different areas
and what's happening in the news.
So that's one way to do a presentation to grab a snap shot
and you can put anything in there, you can put in education,
you can put in this stuff, you can put in Americorps Vista
and it will pull out everything across the web and you just sort
of doodle like I just said and it will have the highlights
of that particular topic, that's one way and that's fun.
Another one that I like to use is called Visual Tweets,
so a lot of us like to use Twitter and let's put
in this stuff, buzz because that's Americorps Vista,
twitter handle and we'll hit go
and what it will do it will load some of our tweets
and it will show them either
in animation form...no, thank you achieve...
[ Laughter ]
Something for us in visual form,
animation which I think is just the coolest thing, right,
sad but grateful good-byes.
Or you can decide to do a rotation and this is great
for presentations, Michelle when we did that National Conference
on Volunteering and Service we did a lot of tweets
and this is great way to put this up on the screen
to visually show people what's happening in your twitter feed.
>> Absolutely it just adds animation,
you know you can have a tweet chat up there
and have things come in which is exciting enough but then
if you have it animated it really pulls in people
who may even be staying in the room because they want to come
and see what's on the screen so that's the way that we use it
at the Vista coffee house.
Finally there's the tag cloud
and this is traditionally how we're used to seeing tweets come
through but they've animated it a little
so that they can be more visually stimulating
and it will take one word and pop it in
and one word and pop it out.
So those are some that I like, these links will be available
for you at the end of the presentation.
Another only is flicker vision
which maps live track [inaudible] flicker
and there's some really fun ones here the wikipedia one is really
fun and I encourage you to go and look at some of these.
I also like the time machine, you can go back in time
and watch old items fly by, so that's a good one and then
in addition to that let's go on back and I wanted to show you
in a little bit more detail some of our infographics.
So are well all back,
can everyone see the infographic examples,
great so this first one is on retail gasoline prices
and how it impacts other areas of our lives.
As a regular document this would be a lot of information
to digest but as an infographic you can very easily pullout
and see how gasoline prices are effecting our shopping
and retail and our dining and entertainment
and how all three are down because of gasoline prices.
Now here's another one that I pulled out for us,
this one actually takes a regular photograph
and you're adding data on top of it, this is getting
around transportation today and it's taking from 1949
until present day transportation.
This is a lot of information on here but as you notice
on the side what would be a traditional bar graphic they're
actually cars...how many cars there were then,
how many cars they are now and the world fastest train
and so all of this is sort of cyclical, it started off
with bicycles and it came back to bicycles...who knew,
I'm a biker so that makes me very happy.
So there's that.
>> Before we leave that one Danielle I know
that we talked a little bit about this,
this is the [inaudible] when I actually saw this one I was
like wow that's a lot of information and it kind
of took me aback but I think you're right
about the photograph pulling it in
and another feature I realized about infographics is really
as you said they do tell a story and so with something
like this I don't how many times I've seen this one land every
time I go back I get a new piece of information
and I think that's a big part of it too which is not necessarily
to overwhelm people but really you are trying
to tell the whole story and so
as in most things every time you hear a good story you might hear
different pieces of it each time so it's just something to point
out that don't be afraid of using different ways
to show information on the same graphs.
>> Exactly and since this is a lot
of information can you imagine reading this in a document,
in a Word document you would have probably closed it by now,
but since this is a lot of information they also use color,
different colors, not many but a different color pallet
to pull your eyes to different bits of information
so that's always a good tip as well to get people to look
at data differently and to make sure
that they're digesting it all.
The next one, this is a graphic one going the distance
on how much energy does it really take for us to travel
on planes, trains and automobiles
and so the things I liked about this were it's very,
very simple unlike the one that we just showed you
that had a lot of information going on.
This is very simple but of course we're talking about cars
and airplanes and so forth and they use a dial
and fuel consumption so they made this very simple and I just
like this one because of its simplicity,
it's a nice comparison to the other one that we just saw.
The next one is again you don't have to be super, super,
super creative or have a big gigantic design budget to come
up with different ways to show information,
this is eight unsavory entrees
and basically they just took the photo of what they were talking
about and they made a graphic out of it, an infographic
out of it and the difference between an infographic
and a graphic is one tells the story and one does not.
So let's take a look at a few more infographics,
sharing my desk top, I think I got it right this time, I did,
I did, there we go and [inaudible].
The ones that I wanted to point
out here this again will be provided
to you this particular link and this is a breakdown
of the average student's budget and I like this
because the graphic they decided
to use represents what they're talking about so
for entertainment it's a CD and for food it's pizza and a lot
of college students eat pizza I guess,
according to this pie chart not as many as I might have thought.
That's an interesting way to look at data,
this is an infographic on consumer spending
across the globe and so of course they're using little tags
that you would see on clothes.
This is get to know your street venders,
the type of street venders you may encounter in urban cities
and in the United states, this is the distribution
of the population in the U.S. and so of course they decided
to use a map of the United States and one
of the things we come
across when we are doing infographics is how do you do a
flat design in sort of a 3-D mode
so that you can still see the United States
but it's not aerial and you will see that you often have
to the tip the graphic a little bit
so that people can see what you're talking about.
Again this particular link will be available to you as well
and I just encourage you to go and look at some
of the different infographics that they have, simply to open
up your mind and get a little bit creative and think
of different ways for you to present data.
This one is what's in consumer's mail stream
so they use mail boxes which is very cool [inaudible].
All right so let's go back, I'm getting good
at this sharing desk top, I should not have said that.
Okay let's go for it and this is an infographic that we did
for Americorps Vista at MCVS National Conference
of volunteering and Service and we wanted
to collect this data...I'm going
to let Michelle give you a little bit of background
about how this started and then I'll walk you through how we got
to the particular infographic.
>> Sure for those of you
who don't know the Vista Coffee House is a session,
sort of an open space area that Vista has hosted
for the last couple of years at the National Conference
for Volunteering and Service and this year it was in New Orleans
and so the goal is to just create a space
where Vistas can connect, relaxed, get free coffee,
we had beignets this year in New Orleans and so the idea is
to create this open space
where people can you know do these things,
have impromptu meetings take a campus tour,
upload their photos, really just a convening spot
and make connections and build community as Vista members
and with National Service members in general
and so we were on board to help support this event
and so thinking through something like this session
and I'll let Danielle go a little deeper into this
but we thought about what types of data we might want to capture
about an event such as this so I would say to that
if you're thinking about creating a graph
that represents an event that you've done one thing
to do ahead of time is to really think through what pieces
of information that you might like to show
because those are the things that you're going
to need to do in advance.
>> Yes, and so when you're thinking about an event
as she said, as Michelle said, you want to think
about what is it that you want to capture
when you're coming back so for us obviously we wanted
to know how many people showed up at the coffee house
and so we literally have people
with clickers clicking every person who came through the door
so that we could count that.
It's a coffee hose so we said all right well we want
to know how many cups of coffee were consumed and we got
out catering [inaudible] to figure out how many cups
of coffee were consumed.
Beignets if you don't know what those are they're yummy, doughy,
fried goodness from New Orleans, wanting to know how many
of those were consumed there as well, 96 as you can see.
We did a tweet chat, there were 51 tweets,
they got re-tweeted 19 times and you'll see
that represented over here.
We had a computer station and we had YouTube uploads
from the Vistas that were coming to share their stories.
Then we wanted to talk about...we had two tweet chats
as you can see represented by the two tweet birds,
we had panel discussions and we wanted to talk
about who came the farthest, we wanted to know of all the Vistas
who came through the door who came the farthest
and we realized that the farthest was from Alaska
and we wanted to represent that in miles.
So believe it or not this went
through several iterations before we landed o this one
but we think that we've captured a good glimpse
of what happen during a National conference of Volunteering
and Service and we're hoping that if I flip the page over
and I came back to you later and said how many people came
through the doors to Vista campus simply because you saw it
in a graphic form you would be able to tell us
and then you all would join us next year
and that number would go up.
So we're hoping.
Now that's a very simple infographic
on how you can yes one foreign event and capture information
at an event and you could use this for anything.
Maybe you are having a volunteer session a volunteer event
and you want to capture how many volunteers came through the door
or how many people signed up, you could have a little desk
and somebody signing up at the desk, the different ways
that you can use that but this is just one example of it.
Now data is often shown in a very large all consuming way,
even in infographics so for this one when you're talking
about something as large as food and security
in the United States this infographic has a lot
of information that is being shared right here.
Out of that graphic if you drill
down a little more this is a graphic.
Now what's the difference between the graphic
and the infographic, this is not telling a story,
it's taking a static bit of information and a pie chart
as we know it and it is showing us food security stats
of U.S. households for 2009 and represented
in the colors it will show you foods secure household,
households with low food security and then households
with very low food security and just know
that although 85.3 percent are secure that 9.2
and 5.6 represents 14 plus million people
in the United States.
We wanted to take this bit of information and decided
that we wanted to create our own data visualization using this
pie chart that you just saw and we created a little video
for you to show you how we took that information and turned
into something that's a little bit different
and we rememberable.
I'm going to play this and I hope
that the volume is not too loud
because often times I can't gauge it until we get
into the presentation so somebody say something to me
if I'm blowing your eardrums our or someone say something
if it's not loud enough.
>> Will do.
>> Okay, here we go.
[ Watching video ]
>> So you have a lot of data you want to share, say information
and food insecurity in U.S. house holds,
you could show the stats in text form or with a pie chart
but there are other ways to make your point come across,
more creative ways.
You can create an infographic of the data.
That will take quite a bit of time and graphic design savvy.
That doesn't mean you still can't use data visualization
to take lots of information to make it come alive.
Since we're talking about food insecurity why not show
that 14.7 million U.S. house holds were food insecure
with well...food.
Here the various house holds are represented with piles of food,
group the food together, adding your percentages
that you printed out on a piece of paper, take a photo of it
and you just may have created a design.
Another idea would be to search for pictures of food items
on the internet, find some images you like,
print them out then just cut them out and make piles
of food images to represent the data to share.
Take a photo and you're done.
With just a little bit of design know how you can make a free
style graphic.
Since we're talking about house holds why not represent your
data with three different hand drawn houses,
color in the percentages, write in the title,
take a photo and you're done.
[ Music ]
[ End of video ]
>> Okay everyone so that's an example
of how we took a very simple pie chart
and then made it a little bit more interesting just using
different kinds of things that we could find.
So now we wanted to do some brain storming and see
if anybody out there in the chat wanted to talk to us or open
up the phone lines individually to people who may want to talk
to us about ways that they could use infographics
or data visualization or if you all needed any help using
infographics or data visualization.
So Suzanne could you walk them through what they should do
if they have a question, is it pound 1?
>> Well, we're going to ask Vanessa to do that.
>> All right.
>> Vanessa can you give instructions
for asking questions?
>> Yes, ma'am at this time if you would
like to ask a question press star 1
on your telephone key pad.
We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q and A roster.
>> Okay, thank you Vanessa.
In the meantime I do see a question in our chat that looks
like we have a few people who are working with education set
and would like some creative ways to share that information.
>> Educations sets, okay, so I am once again going
to share my desk top, while I do that you can still ask questions
in the chat and there we go...and what I did was I will
just type in...let's just see what we come up with,
let's type in education infographics
and let's see what pops up
and here is several that are coming up.
There are images, they're different ones for that
and let's do infographic and see what that bring us.
And here's education, cool infographics.
The internet is your friend and it does recognize infographics
and almost anyone that you can think of is going to be there
for you, so here's education versus the world,
and different ways that you can display that.
Let me see one of the ones that I really
like is this particular website and let's type
in graphics again what we get,
any thing else while I'm doing this?
>> Yes, we do have two questions so far in the chat section
and one is what program do you utilize
to create the infographics?
>> Well, right now there isn't a specific program that's
available to do research, we've searched high and low
and there's some and they're just not user friendly
so either you can do what I'm doing
which is doing a search right now for infographics
on the internet and seeing if someone has already created it
for you, we use our design team which is [inaudible] Solutions
to do our infographic
and otherwise there are other creative ways and some
of them is just borrowing from other people.
In the meantime we're going to keep looking
and as we update information
on this particular web shop we'll show you some other ones.
>> I think part of the video too Danielle
to really sort of...I don't know I think it can be very
intimidating when you think about sort
of weak looking graphics and things like that and so
to appreciate that it really does take just thinking
about what the goal is of sharing your information
and adapting that in a way that that can be very simple
but can tell a story much greater
than something that's in print.
>> Exactly and while this is on revolutionizing education
from 1971 until now this is a matchable infographic you can
as Michelle said think about the story that you want to tell
and cut these images out and do them yourself in a fun
and interesting way, like we used pistachios and blueberries
and raspberries to tell the story of food insecurity
and you can do that as well with different graphics.
>> All right we have a couple more comments one is
that educators love using these programs like inspiration
for infographics so that's good to hear.
>> Great.
>> And another comment was
that on Mac computers they're really good, easy programs
that come with it like pages which is equivalent of Word
and it's all very user friendly.
>> Hey you guys thank you for that, that's great.
Another question I got here on the chat is someone wants
to know how you would show data in homelessness in America.
Interesting I looked up that earlier today
and again this is a site that I really
like if you have never gone
to the good site please do visit them they have some
of the coolest infographics ever
and so this particular one is getting to know the homeless
and it's over the course
of a year three million Americans will be homeless
for at least one and this is a graphical breakdown
of their backgrounds and demographics.
So here's one for you and one way that you can express it
and then another one that I like a graphic that I
like is one specifically on poverty
and this is one that's pretty interesting
and where poverty is rising in America.
>> Vanessa do we have any other questions from the group?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Thanks.
>> Your first question comes from the line
of Caesar Yak [phonetic].
>> Hi, Caesar, what's your question?
>> I have a question about chat.
>> Okay.
>> First I was thinking we have a map for [inaudible].
>> Okay.
>> We wanted to show the locations
of where they're working at right now.
What would be a good way to show
that information...would it be better
in a map or something else?
>> I think a map format would be great.
>> A map format?
>> Absolutely and we actually going to show you one
of the maps that we use on the Vista campus,
the plug in now do you have someone who can do the back end
on the map and build it out or are you thinking
about taking a map and then showing...plugging
in the information yourself?
>> It has to be plugged in that information
because other people have to update it.
>> Oh, okay.
>> So it has to be easy enough for somebody else
to update it very quickly.
>> Okay.
>> What I was going to use was normal RTS software but I think
that would require a little bit education and training.
>> Correct and the thing that you want to keep
in mind is what you just said and you want somebody to be able
to have it on the back end and be able
to enter the information.
Now when we do our maps...I'm going to turn this
over to Michelle because she's the map development queen,
we use Google API do we not?
>> Um, hum, yeah.
>> Does that require some programming skills
for Google API?
>> I believe it does yes.
It does.
>> It does?
>> It does, do you have a technician
on your side who can build?
>> No, I'm the only one here that knows [inaudible]
but I know a little API but the thing is when I'm done
and then somebody else takes
over they don't understand API it's going
to be difficult to update the map.
>> Okay, so this particular one on interactive
and graphical maps, it will give you
if you have flash Ajax I'm going to copy this
and put this in a chat for you.
This is a good one for you to look at this particular site
and I'm going to show it for everyone.
And if you would scoot
around that site a little bit there should be some simple plug
and plays for you.
>> Designer...okay thanks.
>> You're welcome.
>> Vanessa are there any other questions?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> I'm sorry.
>> The next question comes
from the line Kate Vaughni [phonetic].
>> Wonderful.
Hi Kate. Hi, how you doing?
>> Fine thanks, what's your question?
>> I was wondering, I'm looking to show poverty statistics,
we often include them in our presentation,
I wonder if there's a way to make it a little more exciting?
>> As I said I like this one,
it's from...this is America's poor,
where poverty is rising in America.
It almost goes to Caesar what you were talking about as well
and showing things in a map form
and this particular one shows the poverty level
across the United States and what's cool
about is you can roll over it to be able
to pick out different areas.
Sorry I was on mute, I think too if you're looking...depending
on the region you're trying to cover like if you're trying
to do work basically
at a community level you could take this same idea
and perhaps get a local map.
>> Correct.
>> And identify by region and population the information
that you're trying to show about poverty
and whether that's related to specific aspects of housing
or health care education
or whether just broadly you're trying to show a percent
of poverty in your community.
I think sometimes those things are a little bit closer to home
and help to better illustrate the point depending
on who your audience is.
>> Correct and it's interesting that you should say
that as well, I think I showed you all this
when we were sitting on this for a little while and this talks
about rural health in the farm areas,
approximately one billion people live in chronic hunger
and more then one billion live in extreme poverty,
this is a very broad picture because it's looking
at countries but you can take this same information
and translate it locally if you are a Vista working
in a rural area and how you want to communicate innovations
that you're doing in your particular work
and what's happening in your particular area.
You can very much take these graphics and simulate them
and recreate them just to represent them in a rural area
in your local environment as opposed
to something broad stroked
which is what we're showing you right now.
Anybody else have any other questions...no, we're good,
all right, we are...okay so we have
about ten minutes left we still have quite a bit we want
to cover and I am now going to stop sharing my desk top
and turn it over to Michelle.
>> All right thank you, one second.
>> You guys keep talking amongst yourselves while I find Michelle
in the chat room [inaudible] pass her the magic ball
to give the button, give her the rights.
And you can still use the chat room you guys
and ask us questions.
>> Great thanks, Danielle.
>> Your welcome.
And you should be sharing...we're just going
to touch briefly and give a little sort of preview
as to some other types of animated infographic studies
out there and what we're looking at right now are going
to be just a few slides from a presentation
on Prezian [phonetic] which is an interactive presentation
platform and should also let you know that our next session
in October is going to be focusing on spicing
up your presentations basically both for building
on line communities and for also better engaging your audience.
We're not going to go too deep into it today
but I did just want to show you how even by,
as Danielle has been talking about,
sort of including some imagery, highlighting certain numbers,
there are ways to make the information stand out if
that same sentence existed, all the same fonts,
all the same color with no image it might not resonate as much
as what we're looking at right here.
Another example, so you see here 20 percentage
of the homeless population are veterans
and that's easily illustrated here by the changes in color
and design with the people in the photograph here.
And then finally another more animated sort of stark image
that helps to tell a story
and really leaves a lasting impression.
These are just a few examples from one presentation
that we've done but to give you an idea
that also you can stretch some of the infographics into things
that move and really pull people in through different types
of platforms that are out there.
I'll stop my desk sharing for a moment so we can continue
on with a few data visualization tips.
>> Thanks Michelle so her data visualization tips,
graphics charts and tables are great but we'd like you
to start thinking about data a little bit differently
and data visualization can be very simple or sophisticated,
simple as three piles of food or very sophisticated
in terms of a infograph.
And remember infographics should tell a story
and that's what separates them from traditional graphics,
it should tell a story.
You don't want to pack too much information
and not enough graphic into your infographic
and you also don't want to pack too many graphics
and leave out the information.
Finally graphics and information should always match so you want
to make sure those two things are matching and I like so much
that you guys are sharing in the chat with different sites
that people could use and different ways
that they can create creative designs,
that's what we're hoping these web shops are for
and that you can come together and share information.
I actually learned a thing or two myself
so thank you very much.
>> Absolutely and I think we have a couple more minutes
for questions if there are any still lingering out there,
you can either enter them in the chat or...
[inaudible] I'm sorry.
>> One of the questions we've gotten isn't specific
to infographics but is a Social Media Monday distribution list
and how to learn about upcoming social media events.
[ Inaudible section ]
>> There isn't a specific list that only is
about Social Media Monday but there are a few ways
that we get the information out, the fist I would say is
through our social media channel so if you're following us
on twitter or have liked the Americorps Vista Facebook page,
those are probably the number one ways to get the information.
We also...there is also a Vista net [inaudible]
and I can put that in the chat.
We'll send information
out thorough there probably twice a month leading
up to every session and then of course on the Vista campus
in each of these places the social media platforms
and also the Vista mailing list will link you back
to get more information from the social media page
on the Vista campus and we can show you how to do that as well.
>> Great and I just put in the chat the links
for the vistacampus.org, Social Media Monday web page,
specifically for the web shop and what you'll find
on that page are archives of the past web shops that we've done,
information and links to register for the new ones,
you'll also see a form dedicated to each specific web shop
so I'm going to take the information
that you all are sharing in this web chat and add them
to that forum so don't feel
as though once you log off you're not going
to have this information any more.
I'll make sure that's in there and if you have other questions
or even if you think of something down the line
and you want to ask a question about it
or if you have something that you'd like to ask
about an upcoming web shop that you want us
to address you can put that in the form as well
and we'll make sure that you have it.
My question to you all and you can just let me know via chat is
do you have a presentation coming
up that you think you might use these infographics for
or that you may need some help within your presentation.
We want to make sure that we involve you
as we shape these web shops and we thought
that the next one would be great for presentations for you all
and if there is something specific that you would like us
to cover, please, please do let us know.
Are there any other questions
that you are seeing Suzanne, shall we move on?
>> Don't have any other right now, are there any others...if
so please press star 1.
>> Okay.
>> All right.
>> Michelle is now going to show us a little bit and talk
to us a little bit about the Vista campus,
if you all have not gone
to the Vista campus [inaudible] we certainly hope that you have
but if you have not we have tours set up for you all
so that you can learn your way around
and find our Social Media Monday [inaudible] page
but there's many other things for you only the campus as well.
>> Absolutely and I just for those of you
who asked I just posted the Vista list serve in the chat
so you can just go ahead and send a message to that address
and you'll be on the list and there are notifications every
so often on there about various things that are pertinent
to this so it's a good place to get information as well.
>> Can you see my screen?
>> Yeah, can you make it a little bigger,
can you increase...
>> I can't increase it, I'm sorry.
>> I'm sorry, no, no problem, it's as big as I can get them
on this monitor unfortunately.
>> Okay.
>> But where I am just for those who aren't as familiar
with the campus is in the Vista section so the V
with the red circle around it when you land
on this page it's going to show you a couple of different items,
we've got this flag feature here
that highlights the first thing you can do is take a campus tour
and then it highlights a couple of other useful links on here.
As Danielle mentioned you can get to the social media icons
from here and find us on these platforms
and then you can also start a conversation on Vista forms
and they're several other things that you can do
but this is basically the orientation piece
to the Vista area of the campus.
One of the things that we had mentioned was the Vista map,
when we were talking about mapping and so just wanted
to highlight this feature that loads here.
For those of you who haven't already we would encourage you
to go ahead and enter your information here,
you can see there's a snap shot of members
who are currently serving, alumni who have served
and you can search for people, you can see who's serving
in your area, you can perhaps find people who used to serve
in your area and this also connects with a Vista time line
so you can see over thyme the history of the program as well
so it's a pretty neat feature, we're in the process
of doing several upgrades to it over the next few months
but I encourage you to check it out because
in itself it's another way of visualizing data,
you can see points on the map to show
where Vista has had an impact.
So as we're wrapping up here just a couple of things to keep
in mind, obviously the restrictions on Vistas
around political activity and lobbying, [inaudible] also apply
in social media spaces so we just want to remind you
of that obviously same things that you can't do
on the ground physically you also are prohibited from doing
in online environment so we also ask that you keep those in mind.
Additionally be tasteful and appropriate,
remember that you are representing Vista
and so you know just act accordingly in all
of your online endeavors.
>> Correct and we want you to stay safe online
so protect yourself and your organization while on line,
keep your passwords in a secure place which should be something
that no one can easily gain access to
and don't share your password except for those who are working
in that social media space with you.
Be selective in choosing your user name
and e-mail particularly if you're going
to use your organization's e-mail.
Don't give out the information simply because it's requested,
block or ignore unwanted uses, this is very important
in a social media space, we also have a lot
of communication that's happening out there
that may be negative so you have to monitor that space
and you just want to block it or ignore it if it's unwanted,
don't allow others to draw you into conflict
and ask Michelle said, watch what you ''say on line''
and never use a work account for personal use.
So while we encourage you in your social media jobs
and your communications jobs to use social media we want
to make sure that you're using it for work related information.
>> Now as you'll see the evaluation is loaded
and we would like you to take some time
and evaluate this particular presentation,
we want to get better and better at what we're doing
and we can only do that with your help
so let us know what you liked, what you didn't like,
what was useful, what wasn't useful and we will do our best
to continue to improve our web shops as we move forward.
We have some useful links, we've shared most of these with you
and one of the ones I'd like to call your attention
to is communications and marketing on the Vista campus,
tied into what we do for social media, for Social Media Monday
and that what you'll find on our web shops
and our course page a lot of that can be found
in a communication for marketing information so if you're new
in your assignment or you haven't visited
that particular section in a while please do go back there
and check that one and...
>> I'm sorry I interrupted Danielle, I just neglected
to point that out when we were on that Vista home page
so you can access it, it's going to be under the work section
when you get to that Vista area just look for the work
and it's accessible from three different places
so you should be able to find it but that's where you'll be able
to access all of the information about marketing communications
and the Social Media Monday material.
>> Great these are our other social media useful links
that we think you'll find useful, to explain [inaudible]
in it's entirety that link is there, staying safe
on line more information about that.
The course page for Social Media Monday
which will give you the archives and all upcoming information,
our Vista handle is there, our Facebook member page is there,
our Facebook alumni page is there, our YouTube channel
and Flicker so we encourage you to please those spaces
and add your information.
>> That right and of course thank, thank you so much
for joining us we had a great turnout today and we're excited
to see so many new folks out there and for those of you
who have been coming on we see you too and thank you very much
for continuing to spread the word about these sessions
as well as the campus tours.
We will be online again on October 3
for our Social Media Monday on powerful presentations
and looking at some cool ways
and really I think pushing our own limits of presentation,
so be sure to sign up for that one
and the information links are there, they're also in the chat
and of course we'll be promoting them
through the outreach channels
on the Vista campus and [inaudible].
>> Excuse me Ms. Vaughi?
>> Yes.
>> We now have a question.
>> Okay.
>> The question is from Kelsen Ketteridge.
>> Go ahead Kelsen.
>> Hello.
>> Your line is open.
>> What's your question?
>> If your phone is muted would you please unmute your
phone line.
There's no response from the line [inaudible].
>> Okay, thank you Vanessa.
>> Go ahead Michelle, sorry.
>> No problem if you do have a question just put it there
in the chat and we'll be sure to follow up as we're wrapping up
but again as I was saying just join us next time
and help us spread the word and you can get
that information via the Vista campus or any
of the outreach channels that we mentioned earlier, so thank you
so much for being with us, hope that your week is off
to a great start and we will see you next time.
>> All right thank you everyone.
>> Thank you.
>> This does conclude today's conference call,
you may now disconnect.