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Is simplicity in data always desirable? Part 1 I recently stumbled on a really cool blog post looking at the alignment of buildings on the Open Street Map (OSM) database. The author loaded the OSM database for the British Isles, and then calculated the azimuth* of each building. His results are interesting. What does […]
01/12/2013
Can data visualization be used in the classroom? I recently stumbled on some research suggesting that presenting information visually may have significant benefits over text-based materials. The BBC reports that interpreting visual data requires fewer cognitive resources than reading texts. The results showed that when tasks were presented visually rather than using traditional text-based software […]
07/06/2012
I am a busy person these days. I have been teaching at a San Antonio community college and will be moving next semester to teaching High School Algebra I. Also, among other things, I have been researching education data for a national nonprofit. During this project, I needed to simplify some visualizations. Not dumb down, […]
11/02/2011
This is going to be a short post. I recently made an infographic for a client. It actually started out as a poster for an academic conference, which was why I went with a simple, white/blue/black design, but they wanted a web-compatible format as well. I have almost no experience with this kind of work, […]
10/31/2011
I recently wrote a brief post suggesting that data visualization may, in fact, have a place in education. I think a recent find from BYU may be able to elucidate this point further. David Wiley, a Professor at Brigham Young, suggests that teachers may want to visualize test grades in an easily understandable form using a new […]
10/22/2011
I have been spending my free time during the last couple of days putting together a paper for an upcoming e-learning conference in Austin, TX (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education). The theme, which at least I find potentially very interesting, is using data visualization in education, both for teaching and assessment. A colleague […]
07/04/2011
Hey all! I have been pretty busy recently with my new job at the Alamo Colleges, and with a mountain of other projects that I don’t even want to think about right now. Anyway, after a long-ish hiatus due to those work demands, here’s a quick post about something neat I ran across the other […]
04/20/2011
I have been working on a blog series on census data visualizations for another site (which will be reproduced here when it’s all up). First of all, I am using that as an excuse to justify how little I have been posting in the last couple of weeks. However, there is also something I could […]
05/04/2013
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