Adding filters in Tableau helps you make your Tableau dashboards more useful. Filters allow you to display subsections of your data set in your dashboard. One way to add a filter is to use one worksheet that you have in the dashboard as a filter for the other worksheets. To do this, select the filter […]
Author: Jillian Regan, MPH
5 Things to Consider When Planning a Survey
Planning out the details of how your organization will conduct a survey helps to make sure that conducting the survey is a good use of the organization’s time and resources and the results provide insight for answering the research question that was the reason for conducting the survey. The video below briefly discusses 5 important […]
Three Good Places to Look for Re-opening Checklists or Information on Re-opening During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Having good, accurate, and useful checklists for re-opening during the COVID-19 pandemic, or after any infectious disease outbreak that required closing or changing your organizations operations, makes it easier to communicate with everyone involved in your organization’s re-opening. Note that it is important to use your own critical thinking skills to assess whether the source […]
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking, or objectively processing and analyzing information using logic and reasoning to make informed decisions, is important. It is important when researching a topic, gaining insights from that research, and then deciding to create, innovate, or take action based on that research and those insights. This could apply to work or to everyday life. […]
What is contact tracing?
A brief explanation of what contact tracing is.
Using SQL Query in Google Sheets
When using of Google Sheets, you may wonder if it’s possible to use SQL query language to pull up data in Google Sheets, especially when working with large data sets. The answer is yes, it is possible! Here is a video below giving examples using the below formula with three different types of Google Sheets […]
Visualizing Population Data & Change in Population in Tableau
Population data and the percent change in population are two demographic measures that are great to look at for a variety of different reasons. There are many different ways to visualize these two measures, depending what it is that you want to learn from this data or show to others in a presentation. In this […]
Enjoy Bike Month Safely: Bicycling Safety Considerations To Keep in Mind from Recent Injury Prevention Research
Enjoy Bike Month Safely: Bicycling Safety Considerations To Keep in Mind from Recent Injury Prevention Research Bicycling is an enjoyable form of physical activity for many people. Most people (89.8%) in a recent survey have ridden a bicycle at one point in their life.1 People ride bicycles for a variety of different reasons. A recent […]
An Efficient Certificate: My Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification
I recently got my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) through an online course offered by TUM on the edX platform. I admire how the certificate itself and the process of obtaining it was highly efficient, exemplifying the ideas of Lean and Six Sigma, reducing waste and reducing […]
#HDTweets: Ways In Which Twitter Can Be Used by Health Departments
Twitter is a social media platform with 330 million active monthly users as of 2017 for sharing posts of up to 280 characters–as of November 2017; prior to November, the character limit was 140 characters–that can also include images, links to articles, and short video clips. Twitter is useful for health departments because it is […]