This topic always gets under my skin a bit. We seem to believe that science, technology, engineering and mathematics are the exclusive avenues to economic prosperity. We should also realize that the art of communication plays just as much of a role in economic success as does STEM – art, music[...]
Archive for August, 2011
August 9th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Uncategorized
World History Timeline
As a former history teacher, I’ve seen all kinds of timelines. This one is interesting in that the two interactive factors are time (of course) and geography. When you examine the Roman Empire, it starts to make sense. From Matthew Hurst’s Data Mining blog, This visualization of wo[...]
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[...]