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Steve Zuiker

Tableau Software Helps Big Data Become More Visual & More Storified - 0 views

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shared by Steve Zuiker on 14 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • In the new version, Tableau 8.2, people are encouraged to shift from making individual maps, bar charts and fever lines that illustrate information. Instead, Tableau has added a series of narrative boxes that go above each chart; clicked through in order, the charts should be better at using different data points to prove an overall case.
  • Data has moved from something that is painstakingly collected, stored and downloaded to something that more often automatically streams online.
  • we are starting to think of information in more dynamic ways, and need to visualize information as something that changes over time. That is a big change from a typical PowerPoint presentation, which presents data in more static ways.
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  • At its best, this could mean we’ll move from seeing projections of data less as a single concept, which must be digested and then considered against another distinct point. Instead, it could be more of a fluid persuasion, based on lots of related information.
  • Tableau is hardly alone in this shift to dynamic illustration. Stamen Design, a company based in San Francisco that has worked for Google and Facebook, increasingly uses animations of data points. A company called ClearStory Data helps people move through mountains of big data by interactive charts and maps. Even Microsoft offers animations as an addition to its PowerPoint product.
  • Steve Zuiker on 14 Jun 14
     
    one basic example of approaching big data with nuance - storytelling here but not in the vein of McDermott, R. (2010). The passions of learning in tight circumstances: Toward a political economy of the mind. NSSE Yearbook, 109(1).
Steve Zuiker

William T Grant > News - Trust and the Use of Research Evidence - 0 views

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  • the situations in which people may use research evidence typically place people in relation to others.
  • the use of research evidence requires acts of meaning-making and judgment from the people who must interpret this evidence, determine its significance and relevance, and discern contexts for its potential implementation.
  • Trust appeared not as a precondition or an outcome of their deliberations, but as an activity that unfolded through deliberations.
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  • levels of trust in relationships among decision-makers—as well as between decision-makers and others, like support staff, who provide them information for decision-making—influence their receptivity to all types of evidence, including research evidence
  • I have considered practices that deliberators may pursue to build trust in their relationships: flexibility, forthrightness, engagement, and heedfulness.  Practicing flexibility entails treating other positions as potentially reasoned and justifiable.  Forthrightness consists of speaking honestly and sincerely.  Engagement means learning about perspectives and positions different from one’s own.  Heedfulness involves committing oneself to decisions reached through deliberation.
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