Interesting graphics

Audits can be very dense. It is difficult to simply describe complex ideas and findings. I am always on the look out for new ways to visually communicate ideas and reduce the reliance on writing. In a GAO audit that was issued recently I found some very interesting examples of visual communication of complex ideas. See the audit, pages 3, 11, 14, and 18. The graphics show the U.S. Department of Transportation's efforts over time to reduce traffic fatalities, illustrate the consequences of falling behind a damaging trend that with early action could have been reduced, and the evolution and spread of portable electronic devices in the United States to illustrate how this trend may need to be addressed for accident prevention. All very dense concepts but effectively communicated in visual diagrams.