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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 […]
November 2, 2011 by jacobalonso
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, […]
October 31, 2011 by jacobalonso
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 […]
October 22, 2011 by jacobalonso
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 […]
March 27, 2011 by jacobalonso
A while back I read an article (Turner 2010; available here) that explained the rapid growth in the number of international Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO‘s) as a function of of demographics and the structure of economic systems in developed countries. Essentially, the authors argue that an over-supply of cultural and economic elites led to the creation […]
May 4, 2013 by jacobalonso
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