Occupy Wall Street. This is the modern day strike. It is history in the making. It is important to make your students aware of this event, because it is something their children will be learning about. Being a former US History teacher, I taught about strikes. Thanks to unions, the popularity[...]
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
October 28th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources, Health
A Sip of Soda
Nearly everyone drinks soda on a daily basis. One of the most common things to give up for Lent is soda. One of the most difficult things to give up is soda. It was some of the most addicting, legal chemicals including caffeine and sugar. Even when someone decides to switch to caffeine and sugar [&h[...]
October 13th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Health
The Successes and Failures of the Fight Against AIDS
There is still much unknown about HIV/AIDS, but much more is known than 30 years ago. Despite more being known about it, there are still many wrong assumptions and fears. For prevention it is important to educate as well as to do research. Learning about this disease and brainstorming methods[...]
August 22nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Visualizations, Health
Dynamic run paintings with Nike+
Personal data collecting, or self-surveillance, is one of those concepts that is quite cool to some and a bit weird and self absorbed behavior to other, but, as Flowing Data says, ..with the Nike+, which lets you record your runs, thousands have taken part in measuring their performance a[...]
Illustrating the Relationships between Disease Conditions
I especially like it when an infographic can be personalized, that is, it becomes a person tool for answering specific and important questions. The Health InfoScape is an example. I try not to run graphics generated by businesses unless their area of business coninsides with the public interests[...]