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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 […]
July 6, 2012 by jacobalonso
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, […]
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 […]
July 4, 2011 by jacobalonso
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 […]
April 20, 2011 by jacobalonso
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 […]
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 […]
January 12, 2013 by jacobalonso
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