Instructions Your assignment is to make an infographic. You will be creating your own graphic using free software available at http://piktochart.com/. You will have to create a free account with sign in information. Once you have signed up for your free account, you will see this welcome page. image showing the Piktochart welcome screen Please explore the Video Tutorial as well as “How to Use Piktochart” in order to familiarize yourself with the software. It is very user friendly. You do not need to be a professional illustrator or graphics designer! Your goal is to interpret and distill the data from one article and use a Piktochart graphic to tell the story. You will also have an opportunity to share your observations about the importance of ensuring the data is accurately represented in pictorial form. You may choose any of the required readings in modules 1-5, or you may select from the list of articles below. Additionally, if you have a specific article in mind, you are welcome to obtain approval to use that article from your instructor. If you wish to use a different article, you must contact your instructor for approval, including your requested article citation and direct web link, by Wednesday at 11:59pm ET of module 5. Once you have generated your infographic using Piktochart you will publish your saved work. The “publish” button is in the upper left corner of the workspace. You will want to save your infographic as a JPEG file. Piktochart image of the button to publish work. •Once you have created your JPEG file, open up the assignment in your course. •Add one paragraph to address the following. Data is often vulnerable to misrepresentation when converted from text to visuals. Through the experience of manipulating data into a visual format, describe how you see the risks of the data you have worked with being misrepresented. •Type your full APA 6 formatted article citation in the space provided. •Remember to add the direct web link so that I can access the article. •Next, attach your infographic to your assignment. •Submit it to the assignment dropbox for evaluation. In public health, effectively conveying messages is instrumental to educating the populace. This activity introduces you to one way to communicate data and key ideas, and that is using an infographic. It is likely that you have seen infographics before. Here is an example: The infographic shows statistics about food insecurity in the United States in a visual manner. There are four quadrants, each depicting a different aspect of food insecurity according to statistical information. One quandrant contains a map of the US with colors associated with highest and lowest rates of food insecurity. Another quandrant shows rates of food insecurity over years 1998 to 2008, and indicates the percentage of households experiencing food insecurity. A third quadrant shows US households food security status, indicating forty-two percent of households below the poverty line are food insecure, twenty-one percent of households with children are food insecure, and seventeen point seven percent of households in principal cities are not food secure. The fourth quadrant shows a comparative bar chart with key indicators of food insecurity and includes such things as worried that food would run out, purchased food did not last, skipped a meal, did not eat for a whole day, and so on. Statistics taken from the Household Food Insecurity in the United States Report, 2008, by the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program. In the readings for this module you will learn about several prominent health disparities experienced by vulnerable populations – disparities irrefutably tied to geography. Negative and often deadly health conditions are disproportionately seen among the vulnerable. These health conditions may be caused either directly by environmental hazards or characteristics of the community/neighborhood. What are some of these factors that influence health? We will have an opportunity to explore answers to this question in this module. As you can see in the above example, an infographic is a visually and aesthetically pleasing way to represent data. Infographics package data in a way that tells a story without the observer needing to sift through a lot of text. They make the data accessible and striking. Here are additional examples of infographics. Scroll down to the bottom of the web page to find more. As you might also suspect, infographics can be used to manipulate the data! They can be persuasive in their simplicity and can readily be used to misrepresent the source information. Beware of data cherry picking!! Your assignment is to make an infographic.
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