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50 most stunning examples of data visualization and infographics | Richworks - 0 views

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  • The terms Data visualization and Infographics are used interchangeably, the former means the study of visual representation of data and the latter is its representation per se.
  • 42) Geological Time Spiral
  • 40) Map of online communities
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  • 44) Global distribution of water?
  • 43) 1 hour in front of the TV
  • 36) Evolution of Storage
  • 33) The Life of a web article
  • George Bradford on 10 Feb 12
     
    50 MOST STUNNING EXAMPLES OF DATA VISUALIZATION AND INFOGRAPHICS Posted by Richie on Thursday, April 15, 2010 "A picture is worth a thousand words", if I had a penny for every time I heard that!! There is so much data in the world today that it has become impossible for us to analyze them with patience. Data as we perceive it, need not be boring, bland and cumbersome to remember. To make complex things seem simple, is Creativity and using pictures to represent data has been an age old method to analyze data in a fun way. From navigating the web in an entirely new dimension to understanding how the human brain works; from peeking into how Google has evolved to analyzing the inner working of the geeky mind, Infographics has completely changed the way we view content and visualize data.
George Bradford

Seeking Evidence of Impact: Opportunities and Needs (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • Conversations with CIOs and other senior IT administrators reveal a keen interest in the results of evaluation in teaching and learning to guide fiscal, policy, and strategic decision-making. Yet those same conversations reveal that this need is not being met.
  • gain a wider and shared understanding of “evidence” and “impact” in teaching and learning
  • establish a community of practice
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  • provide professional-development opportunities
  • explore successful institutional and political contexts
  • establish evidence-based practice
  • The most important reason is that in the absence of data, anecdote can become the primary basis for decision-making. Rarely does that work out very well.
  • autocatalytic evaluation process—one that builds its own synergy.
  • We live by three principles: uncollected data cannot be analyzed; the numbers are helped by a brief and coherent summary; and good graphs beat tables every time.
  • Reports and testimonies from faculty and students (57%) Measures of student and faculty satisfaction (50%) Measures of student mastery (learning outcomes) (41%) Changes in faculty teaching practice (35%) Measures of student and faculty engagement (32%)
  • The survey results also indicate a need for support in undertaking impact-evaluation projects.
  • Knowing where to begin to measure the impact of technology-based innovations in teaching and learning Knowing which measurement and evaluation techniques are most appropriate Knowing the most effective way to analyze evidence 
  • The challenge of persuasion is what ELI has been calling the last mile problem. There are two interrelated components to this issue: (1) influencing faculty members to improve instructional practices at the course level, and (2) providing evidence to help inform key strategic decisions at the institutional level.
  • Broadly summarized, our results reveal a disparity between the keen interest in research-based evaluation and the level of resources that are dedicated to it—prompting a grass-roots effort to support this work.
  • George Bradford on 01 Feb 12
     
    The SEI program is working with the teaching and learning community to gather evidence of the impact of instructional innovations and current practices and to help evaluate the results. The calls for more accountability in higher education, the shrinking budgets that often force larger class sizes, and the pressures to increase degree-completion rates are all raising the stakes for colleges and universities today, especially with respect to the instructional enterprise. As resources shrink, teaching and learning is becoming the key point of accountability. The evaluation of instructional practice would thus seem to be an obvious response to such pressures, with institutions implementing systematic programs of evaluation in teaching and learning, especially of instructional innovations.
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