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The Auguries of Innocence: Vaccinations and Data Viz: A Case Study (Part 3 of 3)
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Vaccinations and Data Viz: A Case Study (Part 3 of 3). In the third and final part of our case study (see Parts 1. Again, here's the visual, and the link to the original L.A. Times blog. And it’s not about history or trends. It’s about risk. Local communities have high local risk. Through this series, we found a few things:. We cannot generalize the st...
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The Auguries of Innocence: Symbols of Danger: The Radiation Trefoil Failure.
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Symbols of Danger: The Radiation Trefoil Failure. And Other Makings of a Disaster. On September 13, 1987, a security guard at the defunct Instituto Goiano de Radioterapia (IGR), a private radiotherapy institute in the Brazilian state of Goias, decided to take a sick day in order to check out. The Radiation Trefoil Symbol and its Development. The trefo...
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The Auguries of Innocence: The Price of Life: Eating and Isolating Ourselves to Death.
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Saturday, August 2, 2014. The Price of Life: Eating and Isolating Ourselves to Death. Wired Magazine has published an infographic displaying the National Institutes of Health's budgetary allocations for work to prevent the top causes of death. But prevention and minimization is thwarted by a web of poverty,. We in the United States consider ourselves a 'developed' nation. ...
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The Auguries of Innocence: Vaccinations and Data Viz: A Case Study (Part 2 of 3)
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Tuesday, February 25, 2014. Vaccinations and Data Viz: A Case Study (Part 2 of 3). In part one of our case study, we took a look at a recent Los Angeles Times blog titled "The Toll of the Anti-Vaccination Movement, In One Devastating Graphic". We illustrated some problems with news media repurposing information graphics to advance a story or idea, in particular using:. This is...
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The Auguries of Innocence: This Is Not a Data Visualization.
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Tuesday, November 26, 2013. This Is Not a Data Visualization. Data 'visualization' is different from data 'illustration'. An easy way to think about this is to remember that we must. Things before we can. Things. It's important to distinguish visualization from illustration. Using either one in the wrong context can disrupt communications, comprehension. They can be subjective...
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The Auguries of Innocence: Frankenstein's Creature, Vaccinations, and Data Viz: A Case Study (Part 1 of 3)
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Monday, February 3, 2014. Frankenstein's Creature, Vaccinations, and Data Viz: A Case Study (Part 1 of 3). Inspired by this idea, Mary Shelley wrote her famous work Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. In this blog, we'll deal with a slightly less dramatic but still fundamentally important galvanization: the repurposing of a data visualization for a rhetorical news feature.
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The Auguries of Innocence: Visualizing the Spread of Natural Gas Wells, and the Importance of Visual Impact
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Visualizing the Spread of Natural Gas Wells, and the Importance of Visual Impact. Miles and miles of this. It went on for a while. After a few minutes, I felt I had a pretty good feeling of what I was seeing, and when I came home, I did some more research, and was fairly certain I was looking at a large expanse of natural gas wells. What's missing, thoug...
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The Auguries of Innocence: Brian Williams, Dan Rather...and Data Journalism
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This is the blog of Information for Humans. Information lacks meaning if it isn't illustrated in the way that we experience life. Sunday, March 15, 2015. Brian Williams, Dan Rather.and Data Journalism. News media outlets continue to struggle through embarrassing occasions of flagship news presenters such as Brian Williams. The Excitement of Data Journalism…and the Looming Failure. Created a more thoughtful discussion in his blog. It's a discussion between well known and respected Alberto Cairo. The key s...
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