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As a public school teacher, I frequently feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information I receive. I get data about student performance, about equity measures, about student’s lives and about parent’s aspirations. Yet at some point during my graduate coursework I started to rethink how I approached exactly what value I was getting from […]
May 4, 2013 by jacobalonso
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 […]
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, […]
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 21, 2011 by jacobalonso
What a creative visualization! From ShiftControl, nr2154, and okdeluxe, I stumbled on an image and video created for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) created from a set of flocking and force field algorithms. As they describe it, they did a good job using math to express social meaning: Consisting of 192 lines, […]
February 14, 2011 by danplechaty
From Scott Sumner, we have a new way of visualizing the political spectrum. I wonder how many people would self-identify as a corrupt democrat or a corrupt republican? I also think that the words ‘idealistic’ and ‘pragmatic’ are slightly loaded, but nevertheless this is an interesting way to distinguish between values and ideology.
February 13, 2011 by jacobalonso
With all my excitement about the world of data visualization, I think it was good that I stumbled on the website of professor Phillip Howard at Michigan State (website here), who offers a stunning graphic on what he calls ‘pseudo-variety’ in the soft drink industry. What is particularly useful here as a general lesson is […]
February 11, 2011 by jacobalonso
Seems like swarm algorithms and flocking behavior are pretty popular these days. Visualizations of those algorithms are pretty sparse, though. Today I ran across the work of some architecture students, Hyun Chang Cho, Jun Ho Cho, and Eun Ki Kang, all involved in some really cool visualizations. Another impressive swarm visualization comes from Samuel Brisette […]
Seeing Complexity 
May 24, 2015 by jacobalonso
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