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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 […]
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 25, 2011 by danplechaty
Have you ever been waiting for a bus for half an hour, only for two half-filled buses of the same route to roll up to your stop? Known as bus bunching, this can be an incredibly annoying experience, especially if you see many buses pass by in the opposite direction while you’re waiting. Luckily for […]
March 2, 2011 by danplechaty
Data visualization isn’t limited to the social sciences. As a case in point, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes the journal Science) recently held a competition for data visualization. There were some really cool ideas – a team from MIT tracked where pieces of trash ended up, a Russian team created a […]
February 28, 2011 by jacobalonso
First of all, I apologize for my brief absence. I was at Morehouse College presenting a paper (that doesn’t really have anything to do with my blog). While I was at the airport waiting for my late flight, however, I stumbled on a post over at L. Eckstein’s fantastic blog, All My Eyes. Her post uncovers a set […]
February 16, 2011 by danplechaty
Which countries have the greatest public debts relative to the size of their economies? The IMF has a great data mapping tool, which includes the ability to look at historical data and play back changes over time. The following graph comes from their historical public debt database; the graph below was adjusted using PPP. The […]
February 10, 2011 by jacobalonso
Crime mapping has been a tool employed by police for more than a century, but only recently has the data collection been organized and consistent enough to accurately aggregate spatial crime statistics. I was taking a look at a 1997 paper on predictive crime mapping using artificial neural networks—a topic I recently became very interested […]
February 6, 2011 by jacobalonso
When do images have a purely utilitarian function? Reading through Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information (an incredible book that I recommend to virtually every social scientist, available on Amazon.com here and via the author’s site here. Really. The images are nice, but his writing is fantastic), I came across a series of railway tables: (Timetable for […]
Seeing Complexity 
January 12, 2013 by jacobalonso
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