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There are 5615 journals currently indexed in PubMed. I was curious to know which of these journals is publishing articles on eHealth. I searched the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) using the word: “eHealth” and found three entry terms: eHealth, Mobile Health and Telehealth. I adapted a script and ran individual searches on the years...
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Introduction Many of us are familiar with Charles Minard’s map of Napoleon’s March to Moscow in 1812 (Figure 1). This map has been reproduced in various publications including Edward Tufte’s “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”. As Tufte noted the map provides us with various pieces of data: the width of the brown line...
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In a previous post I used Google Charts to explore how data from a web-based source (Statistics Canada) can be mined and displayed in format that provided us with some insights. The data visualization (in the form of bar charts) demonstrated that rates of diabetes are increasing and more so in certain geographical areas...
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I have wanted to explore data using some of the advanced charting tools that are now available on the Internet for some time now. I’ve looked at quite a few options including Tableau and some GIS (Geographic Information System) programs such as ArcGIS and Instant Atlas. Most of these were expensive or used complex...
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It has been said that if you didn’t pay for the product then you are the product. Nowhere is this more evident than with the plethora of social media analytics applications currently available on the Internet. For example, there are dozens of applications that provide feedback on your use of Twitter (see in particular...
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Recently I found some written instructions I had prepared several years ago to help my parents program their VCR. It took me three pages to write out the steps to record a program. Where applicable each step included a hand drawn representation of the button the VCR (and/or the remote) to ensure clarity and...
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In a previous post I presented an analysis of the tweets from the Health Care Social Media Canada (#hcsmca) Twitter community. By using a network analysis tool (NodeXL) I was able to determine that two Twitter identities (@infoway and @jasonboies) were participating but perhaps not in a connected way. When community members are “off...
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In the ethnography, “Situated Learning” (Lave & Wenger, 1991) it was observed that learning a trade or profession such as a tailor or midwifery was best supported by engaging in this activity within the actual community in which it was taking place. In this context the learner, as an apprentice, can be exposed to...
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Accidents happen. Often when we are tired, overwhelmed with too much information and too much to do we make mistakes. Many of us work long hours, interacting with complex machinery and in noisy environments. Few of us, however, are required to work 36 or more hours in a row, with little or no sleep....
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