Dans le cadre de la conférence Internet et santé : nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux enjeux, Marie-Gabrielle Ayoub, responsable des communications interactives à l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale Douglas, est venue exposer différentes manières de promouvoir la santé mentale à l'ère du Web 2.0.
Google fusion tablesThis online database and mapping tool has become our default for producing quick and detailed maps, especially those where you need to zoom in. You get all the high resolution of google maps but it can open a lot of data - 100mb of CSV, for instance. The first time you try it, Fusion tables may seem a little tricky - but stick with it.
Tableau PublicIf you don't need the unlimited space of the professional edition, this is free - and means you can make pretty complex visualisations simply and easily with up to 100,000 rows. We use it when we need to bring different types of charts together - as in this map of top tax rates around the world, which also has a bar chart too.
After something simple - like a bar or line chart, or a pie chart? You'll find that Google spreadsheets (which you create from the documents bit of your Google account) can create some pretty nice charts - including the animated bubbles used by Hans Rosling's Gapminder. Unlike the charts API you don't need to worry about code -
Having said that, there is a simplicity and beauty to its bubble charts that no-one else has matched - and the word link graphic which we used below is a very useful way of showing how language links together. It's also linked to the Wordle site - which although now deeply unfashionable with designer types - is still a lovely way to show word frequency (if not much else).
Not, strictly speaking, a visualisation tool, Color Brewer - originally designed with federal funding and developed at Penn State - is really for choosing map colors, and is worth spending some time with if plan to make many more.
it's also worth checking out this DailyTekk piece which has even more options. The ones above aren't the only tools, just those we use most frequently. There are lots of others out there too, including: • Chartsbin A tool for creating clickable world maps• iCharts Specialises in small chart widgets• Geocommons Shares data and boundary data to create global and local mapsOh and there's also piktochart.com, which provides templates for those text/numbers viz there are a lot of around at the moment.
What data visualisation tools are out there on the web that are easy to use - and free? Here on the Datablog and Datastore we try to do as much as possible using the internet's powerful free options.
Le Canada aura dépensé près d'un demi-milliard de dollars de moins dans le secteur des médicaments grâce à l'implantation d'un réseau permettant aux pharmaciens et aux médecins d'accéder directement aux dossiers informatisés de leurs patients. Ces dossiers énumèrent les médicaments prescrits aux patients et fournissent un historique médical qui permet d'éviter de potentielles interactions médicamenteuses ou réactions allergiques.
L'étude attribue ces économies à l'adhésion accrue aux traitements médicamenteux de la part des patients, à la hausse de la productivité des pharmaciens, à la diminution de l'occurrence des effets indésirables de médicaments, et à la baisse des abus médicamenteux.
"Dr. Watson," says he expects the computer, which can respond to questions with answers instead of data and spread sheets, to radically improve doctors' care of their patients.
Watson is expected to be able to take a patient's electronic medical records, digest them, summarize them for the doctor and point out any causes for concern, highlighting anything abnormal and warning about potential drug interactions.
52 - Pourquoi le Web social en santé ?RÉGIS BARONDEAU, consultant/conférencier en médias sociaux, spécialiste wiki – étudiant au doctorat conjoint en administration, Université du Québec à Montréal
ROBERT H. DESMARTEAU, professeur de stratégie, directeur du programme MBA pour cadres ÉSG, UQAM
56 - La promotion de la santé mentale à l’ère du Web 2.0 : l’expérience de l’Institut DouglasMARIE-GABRIELLE AYOUB, responsable des communications interactivesInstitut universitaire en santé mentale Douglas