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Area profiler

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Area profiler
Excel based area profiler covering a range of datasets allowing demographic description, deprivation context, and priority issues of your area in the context of other local areas.
Visual types
Level of expertise
Source:
Cumbria Intelligence Observatory (Area Profile)
http://www.cumbriaobservatory.org.uk/elibrary/view.asp?id=23941
Interactive features
User can to select areas and select benchmarking area.
Benefits & pitfalls to avoid
  • When using colours to portray data values or types, ensure that the colors used are accessible to all users. Online tools such as ColorBrewer (www.colorbrewer.org) can help identify issues with colours used.
Create your own
  • Point charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.
  • Range charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.
  • Simple scorecards can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel More sophisticated visualisations can be created using commercial packages such as Tableau, or development languages such as Processing.