Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Change Between Two Data Points

In September 2022, I had the honor of giving the first virtual talk for the 2022 Evaluation Café series hosted by Western Michigan University- The Evaluation Center. During my presentation, I shared several alternative options for visualizing change between two points in time that go beyond the traditional (clustered) bar chart, including dumbbell plots, slope graphs, and data tables with embedded icons. Earlier that year, I published an article on the same topic in the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale