Cats at shelter more likely to live

� Ended policy Euthanatiz-ing all animals under two pounds.

� Began to spay/neuter then release healthy feral cats instead of euthanizing.

� Began expansion of the foster care program.

40%

60%

20%

80%

‘10 ‘14‘12

The percentage of cats that are euthanized each year at the Front Street Animal Shelter in Sacramento decreased.

New policies implemented at end of 2011

SOURCE: GINA KNEPP GRAPHIC BY: KAITLIN BANE

0

20%

20%

40%

Jan Mar May Jul

Willard Airport, more delayed, cancelled

2007 2014

Willard

Bloomington

Delayed and cancelled rate rose to 23.66% in 2003,

reaching 25.33% in 2014, surpassing 25.17% in 2007.

551 of 2329 �ights at Willard Airport in 2013 were delayed more than 15 minutes or cancelled, turning worse than airport in Bloomington.

NAS

other

NAS control may include: non-extreme weather conditions, airport operations, heavy tra�c volume, air tra�c control, etc.

42.17% of 294 �ights were delayed more than 15 minutes or cancelled in June, 2014. 17% was caused by (NAS) National Airspace System control.

In 2004, 13.78% delayed and cancelled �ights were caused by NAS, 7.74% by carrier operations, 11.29% by previous late air craft, 2.11% by extreme weather.

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics Graphic by Lucy Liu

30%

40%

Highest acceptance rate at UI College of Law in yearsAfter false admission data was published by the University of Illinois in 2012, the number of applicants has continued to increase to �ll quota for Class of 2016.

20%

10%

‘14 ‘15 ‘16

Acceptance rate reached a high at45% for 2016

Source: law.illinois.edu Graphic By: Mia Reggi

Source: CDC Graphic by Sarah Fitzpatrick

African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer less often than white women, but their death rates are higher once diagnosed.

Black women see more deaths after diagnosis

10%

20%

25% death rate afterdiagnosis

White88%

Black12%

Percent Diagnosed in 2011

Death Rate in 2011

White Black

0.5

1.0

1.5

20111970

Source: OECD FACTBOOK 2014

Graphics by:Seung Eun Lee

2.0

2.5

2000 2009 2010

UNITED STATESOECD AVERAGE

United States’

fertility rate in 2011

has been reduced

by about 24% from

that of 1970

United States’ fertility rate decreases every yearAccording to OECD (Organization for Economic Coopera-tion and Development) 2014 factbook, the fertility rates in the United States were 1.89 in 2011 and 2.48 in 1970. Over the 40 years, the fertility rate in the United States decreased as the OECD average fertility rate did. However, excluding the year 1970, the United States’ fertility rate was always higher than that of the OECD average.

College’s annual crime reports show increase in sexual assault

Dartmouth* and Harvard*

20%

15%

10%

5%

USC Iowa Harv* UConn Dart*

An increase in sexual assaults reported at colleges, previously critisized for mishandling sexual assault cases, shows that more victims are coming forward

14.6% average increase in reports from 2011-2013

Source: Hu�ngton Post & Women’s Resource Center Graphic by: Saher Khan

50%

30%

10%

20%

40%

‘04- ’05

‘13- ‘14

Fewer freshmen choose U of IThe percentage of freshmen who enroll at the university after being admitted has steadily decreased.

Source: DMI Graphic by Hannah Prokop

35.4% of admitted freshmen enrolled

� Inaccurate Y axis scale — a serious flaw to an other-wise strong graphic.

11%4%

$1.0 billion

$0.5billion

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

Total tuition and direct state funding

85% 56%

25%

19%

State aid

In-state

Out-of-state

Source: University of Illinois Graphic by Anna Hecht

‘00

$25,000

$12,500

‘02 ‘04 ‘10 ‘12 ‘14 ‘06 ‘08

Out-of-state

In-state

Increases in tuition rates

8,000

4,000

‘00 ‘02 ‘04 ‘10 ‘12 ‘14 ‘06 ‘08

More out-of-state undergrads

U of I enrolls more from out of stateOut-of-state enrollment at the University of Illinois continues to rise after years of state funding cuts.

� Make it clear pointer is pointing only to the top of the line

Cooking 156,600

Heating 60,400

Intentional28,900

Other

Also #1 cause in C-U

Cooking causes most �res in the U.S.Champaign and Urbana

matched national

trends with cooking

and heating equipment

being top causes of

house �res.

Source: National Fire Protection Association

Graphic by:Becky Jacobs

� Typographic style slight-ly off

Less food waste with trayless dining

5

10

15

20

‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11

20 ounces less food waste perstudent

In 2007, food waste produced at University of Illinois dining halls was 24.7 ounces per student. By 2010, all dining halls were trayless and waste dropped to 4.7 ounces per student -- an 80 percent decrease (left).

Meanwhile, housing-reported estimated food waste decreased from more than 2.5 million to just over 500,000 pounds per year -- a 500 percent decrease (right).

Sources:Sustainability Report Dawn AubreyiCAP Portal Graphic by Lyanne Alfaro

‘07-’09 ‘09-’12

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

More than two million pounds less in annual estimated food waste

� Phrasing could be less linear narrative

87.8%

2.1% AsianHispanic

BlackWhite

201319751945

White popula-tion decreases in the U.S.

Source: Cline Center for Democracy

Graphic by:Earn Saenmuk

White population has decreased from 87.8% in 1945 to 65.7% in 2013, while hispanic population has grown 13.3%

9.5%0.3%

� Don’t hyphenate head � Add ending percentage � Uneven X axis scale

International adoption declines

20,000

0

15,000

10,000

5,000

2009 20112008 2010 20122005 2006 2007 2013

In recent years international adoptioninto the U.S has been declining. A mainfactor in this decline is, countries that were once very open to international adoptions are now preferring more domestic adoptions.

Graphic by: Monique ArcherSource: Niles Cole &travel.state.gov

7,092 InternationalAdoptions

� Too large for amount of data imparted � Typographic style slightly off � Pointer shouldn”t hide top of bars

Self-reported data leads tobetter-rated nursing homes

Source: Medicare.gov Graphic by Bailey Bryant

Quality(Self-reported)

Sta�ng(Self-reported)

Inspection(Gov. reported)

Overall

‘11’14

Factor veri�ed by the government shows no improvement in the average caliber of East Central Illinois care facilities.

Overall 5-star rating based on �rst 3 categories

Self-reported data not veri�ed

System to change in 2015

� Works, but only if reader already knows what’s trying to be said. Needs to clearly state that government-measured ratings are unchanged, while self-ratings have improved, resulting in artificial improvement of overall scores.

Unemployment rate in C-U rises

above IL’sFirst time unemployment rate in Champaign-Urbana is higher than Illinois’ since the 2007 recession — in part by Urbana’s rising rate.

2014

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Graphic by Stephanie H. Kim

1

23

45678

910

Jan. May June July Aug. Mar. AprilFeb.0

Crossover Point: C-U increases to 7.4 while IL drops to 6.7

Crossover point (July):C-U’s rate 1% higher than IL’s by Aug.

U

IL

C-U

� Statistical problem an anaylst would have pre-vented: Local rates are not seasonally adjusted while national rates are. All this may be showing is lack of seasonal adjustment.

� Jobless data actually come from surveys, which means they have error margins. The modest differences cited may be within those margins.

� Labels essential to under-standing are smallest type on graphic

20

80

60

40

April DecemberAugust

SOURCE: STEPHANIE JOOS, AMBER MOORE

GRAPHIC BY: CHRIS PULLAM

Warm months lead to increase in euthanized animals

Number of cats and dogs euthanized at the Champaign County Animal Control as younger animals become adopt-able.

Cat breeding season begins in March. Companion dogs spend more time outside.

� Data interpretation unclear. If data are for most recent months, presentation could mask an almost straight-line rise in killing animals since September 2013.

� Too large for amount of data imparted.

Graphic by Qi ChenSource: CDC20101970s

4

8

12

‘02 ‘06 ‘10

Boys 1 in 42

Girls 1 in189

Autism rates soarFrom 2000 to 2010, when the most recent data is avaliable, the prevalence of autism per 1,000 8-year-old children more than doubled to 14.7. The rate of boys is over 4 times as girls.

The rate increased by 119%.

� Uneven or elided scale on X axis. Pointer uses number other than what it is pointing to. Unclear from chart where comparison is being made.

� Unclear what numbers in pie mean. Presumably, 14.7 per 1,000 equals 1.47% while 1 in 42 is 2.38% and 1 in 189 is 0.52%. Mean would be 1.45%, indicating a some-what greater number of boys overall, which is consis-tent with reality, but reader is hard-pressed to figure this out. Sticking with one way of expressing num-bers would help.

� Essential data labels too small, won’t overprint heavy color.

Nonresident students rise

Ideal

Currently at 25.5 percent, the University looks to decrease nonresidents to 25 percent of undergraduates.

’07 ’09

25%

’13 Future’11

15%

5%

Source: DMI, Vicky Gress Graphic by Kirsten Keller

� Should explain that uni-versity’s rapid rise in per-centage of students from out of state has overshot its target. “Ideal” is a load-ed word. Better to use dot-ted line indicating “Target.” Otherwise, graphic reads as if university next year will be ideal.

� Wrong column width � Bottom chart should be bars, not col-umns.

� No context (relative percentage of population) in top chart.

� Better to chart incidence rate then death rate.

� Labels essential to understanding are smallest type on chart.

00 02 04 06

2000

08

4000

6000

8000

07

2000

08

4000

6000

Increased by 5533

death sentences

World China

Increased by 5143

death sentences

The number of the world’s death sentence �uctuates at the start of the 21st centuryChina’s death sentence increase takes 93% of the world’s increse in 2008. The country was ejected from the data pool since 2008 because of the dramatic death sentence surge, much larger number comparing with other countries, and constant situation ever after.

Source: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Graphic by: Yi Zhu

� Advocacy group inappropriate source. � Wild fluctuation from year to year casts considerable doubt on methodology.

� Effective visual vividness.

20142013201220112010

$200M

$400M

$600M

NBA franchise value soaring

Source: Forbes Graphic by: Stephen Bourbon

Up 71.8% from 2011

NBA teams are �ourishing due to increased revenue sharing from the new collective bargaining agreement in 2011.

$$

$$

$$

$$

� Inappropriate source. � Not charting actual data but rather a reporter’s un-verified assumptions about value and unverified asser-tions as to why the num-bers have changed.

U of I sees fewer �ne arts majors

12. 6 percent of recent college graduates with �ne arts degrees are unemployed nationally

1,800

1,200

600

’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14

20.8 % decrease since recession

Source: DMI, Center for Education and the Workforce

Graphic by Sean Hammond

� Chart appears OK but text implies causation without evidence and introduces in chatter data without con-text (is this higher or lower than other majors?), lead-ing to an overall tone of spin rather than actual da-ta presentation.

$ $

PED virus causes high pork prices

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2

4

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per p

ound

in do

llars

AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB APR MAY JUN JUL AUG

PED outbreak

Millions of piglets have been lost in 2014 due to an outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in piglets, causing an 11.7 percent increase of the price of pork products.

Source: USDA Graphic by Alyssa Ullrich‘13 ‘14

� Imputes causation without strong evidence.

� Too much chartjunk left over from using Illustrator chart tool without cleanup.

� Text overwhelms chart. Chart labels exceedingly small.

I-Link produces more interviews

The amount of students and alumni on I-Link has increased by 2,569 people. After merging all career sites and adding another interview suite, the UIUC Career Center can generate more interviews for I-Link users.

5%

10%

‘10 ‘13‘12‘11

8% more I-Link users interviewed

Sources: careercenter.illi-nois.edu, Lillian Nguyen Graphic by: Olivia Catuara

� Unclear comparison, pre-sumably percentage points from 2011 to 2013.

� Bias evident. No indication whether actujal number of interviews has increased or deceased, only that tinter-views arranged under this particular brand have grown as alternative services have been discontinued.

� Unclear what’s being charted -- the percentage of admitted students who accept admission?

� Chatter discusses com-pletely separate date — number of applications.

� Relationship to publica-tion of false data is un-clear.

� Pointer type too small.

� Too little analysis of what data actually mean to readers. Simplify into main points rather than overwhelming amounts of largely unexplained da-ta. NAS vs. other not un-derstandable.

� Type too wordy and small. Charts too small for amount in informa-tion; however, informa-tion could be simplified.

� Comparison of CMI to BMI may be misleading as numbers for each may be within statistical mar-gin of error since 2006.

Schools get less from stateFiscal crunch means state falls short of funding requirement

10.9% below requirement

‘150% ‘12 ‘11 ‘13

10%5%

Source: ISBE.orgGraphic By: Leslie Swa�ord

� Chart too small vis-a-vis type. Chart labels also too small.

� Unclear what’s being charted — births per x number of women of child-bearing age annually?

� Unclear what OEDC is — perhaps, total in x number of nations and other regions worldwide.

� Uneven or elided scale for x axis. � Labels essential to understanding what’s charted are in tiny type, using keys.

� Angled type as in pointer is unreadable.

� Wrong chart type; should be bars not columns. � Unequal spacing on y axis scale. � Not in column measure. � Huge for amount of information imparted. � Selecfive data from five random and quite different universities is not comprehensive. If we picked five others, could be achieve completely different results.

� At first glance, chart seems to show a wise over time, which is not at all what the data say.