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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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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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Readers, you may find this blog posting of interest: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2010/08/the-interpretation-of-tables-in-texts-2000.html First, this guy (not to be rude, his name is Matthew Hurst) did his PhD on the depiction of data in tables. This is interesting in of itself. By tables I mean a plain old box with fields in rows and columns. It may...
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In honor of Jessica’s fine (last but not least) chapter in, “Beautiful Visualization” I offer my own , perhaps feeble attempt, at the fine art of indexing information. Try to imagine it is on an index card. Can you guess the reference? Hint: It is the title of a song.
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This post just in from Flowing Data, one of my favourite data visualization blogs. A diagram of where the iPad fits in compared to available technologies. This is an interesting analysis. I had not considered it as a gaming console. Probably because I don’t play computer games. Not sure if any of the games...
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It is generally accepted amongst social scientists who collect information or measure phenomena that the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods yields the richest data. The information collected on a survey, in which many of the questions are close-ended can be contextualized by the material from the qualitative part of the study. In the...
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Well, one might ask, “What does social networking have to do with the cure for cancer”? I’ve been wondering that myself…I think that the kind of information that is shared in health-related social networks, especially as they become more and more refined in the data they collect (e.g. www.patientslikeme.com) are going to be very...
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