• Data Underload #24 – My Candy

    Updated: 2010-10-29 19:02:02
    One pound for them. Nine pounds for you. Happy Halloween. Watch out for flaming bags of dog poo on your doorstep.

  • How to turn data into money

    Updated: 2010-10-27 11:58:12
    Pete Warden describes how to make a living working with data. Essentially, do something more with the data than plopping it front of people. There's a small niche (for now) as data provider. Demand is much higher for storyteller.

  • How Data Packs can save local information systems managers time and money

    Updated: 2010-10-25 14:23:20
    Local information systems (also known as data observatories) can save you and your users significant amounts of money, not to mention the benefits of better intelligence for decision-making (and not just in your organisation - interviews with local information systems managers also highlight their role in “empowering the local community to challenge the local partners and council”). [...]

  • New Online public health research tool launched using InstantAtlas

    Updated: 2010-10-20 22:08:59
    The Centre for Public Health has launched a website, CPHROnline, (http://www.chpronline.massey.ac.nz) which will allow health professionals, academics and the public to access all kinds of health related data online via a series of interactive maps. The website is a collaboration between Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research,  the Ministry of Health’s Māori Health Directorate [...]

  • The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

    Updated: 2010-10-20 10:18:35
    Background The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center based at the University of Washington. IHME aspires to make available to the world high-quality information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems. It aims to achieve this directly, by catalyzing the work of others, and by [...]

  • How to Make A Graph or Chart Really Bad

    Updated: 2010-10-19 01:00:00
    Support Analytics Consulting Subscribe to main feed Enter your email to get the main feed in your inbox Support Analytics Blog Home Blog Bookstore About Advertise e-Store Privacy Just Another Illustration Why Data Visualizations Need Help How to Make A Graph or Chart Really Bad Tweet Over the last few years , it’s no secret that I’ve pulled some good and poorly designed data visualizations from the BusinessWeek magazine . Since Bloomberg took over the magazine the chart graphs and data info visualizations have declined . significantly Here’s my promise to the readers of this blog this will be the last chart that I pull from BusinessWeek because it was poorly designed . Take a look at the bar chart below that was shown in the October 18 24 issue that I just picked up . Folks , this isn’t

  • Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) ‘Using interactive reports to show a nation’s progress in early childhood development’

    Updated: 2010-10-15 15:27:02
    Between 2004 and 2008, the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) Building Better Communities for Children pilot project was carried out across 60 Australian communities from all states and territories (excluding the Northern Territory). It involved more than 56,000 children and over 3,000 teachers and was a measure of how young children developed in different communities. [...]

  • Just Another Illustration Why Data Visualizations Need Help

    Updated: 2010-10-12 12:30:00
    Support Analytics Consulting Subscribe to main feed Enter your email to get the main feed in your inbox Support Analytics Blog Home Blog Bookstore About Advertise e-Store Privacy Tableau Powers Fantasy Football Analytics How to Make A Graph or Chart Really Bad Just Another Illustration Why Data Visualizations Need Help Tweet As I thumb through my latest edition of BusinessWeek , I see many illustrations where the data visualization looks like the one below . Also , it seems that with each new week come worse charts and graphs . Looking at the one below , the 3-D effect adds absolutely no value and makes this chart pretty much . useless BusinessWeek , Oct 4-10 I am pulling for the new management to do a better job , but I’m not very hopeful . Want to make this chart better Simply remove the

  • New InstantAtlas Report – ‘Access to Services’ (across Leicestershire)

    Updated: 2010-10-08 15:17:58
    The effective planning, design and delivery of local services requires a clear understanding of current and future service provision along with an understanding of all service user needs. Varying requirements such as geographical areas, the range of services provided by diffferent organisations and the quantity and diversity of available information means providing a concise reporting [...]

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