![]() ![]() Donna De Smet is a medical illustrator who produces incredible animations that help explain heretofore mysterious medical concepts. All three talked about and showed examples of what happens when animation is used to tell a story, particularly educational stories. Today’s event was called “ Information in Motion” and featured three absolutely amazing visual artists. How do they fit into a world built on books and scholarly journals? Will these new ways of communicating displace a world made on paper, or will they blend into new forms of scholarly expression that grow from the best of the past? They can be textual databases, creative visualizations of information, multimedia explorations, collaboratively annotated maps, and a thousand other projects. ![]() It’s not their best “interactive” data visualization they’ve ever done, but it’s eleventy bazillion times better than the black and white histograms we see in print journals in academia.įinally, today, my awesome colleagues at the VCU Libraries hosted another event in their ongoing Digital Pragmata series.ĭigital pragmata flourish at the nexus of research, teaching, and creativity. (It starts with that tweet, but click through to see the whole thread)įor the purposes of this post, though, I’m more interested in the technical and visual aspects of what the NYT accomplished. Tools like this NY Times "good schools" infographic are toxic. Jack Schneider, Assistant Professor of Education at Holy Cross, and a boffo education historian, went on a lovely rant about the “tool” that’s worth reading. “ Good Schools, Affordable Homes: Finding Suburban Sweet Spots.” Substantively, it’s all kinds of problematic. Then, today, The Upshot at the New York Times produced an “interactive” visualization called If colored heat maps are the top end of our creative thinking for visualizing data, we’re way behind the curve. I did a fairly cursory review of the IES report and my first instincts are that it’s decent and somewhat useful, but limited, particularly when it gets around to data visualization. A LOT of educational research fits into this bucket, including, but not limited to, studies using survey research designs and secondary data analyses. In doing so, I will continue to beat the modern scholarly communication drum I’ve been beating, particularly in my own discipline, education.įirst, yesterday, I saw that the Institution of Education Sciences (IES) put together a new report on “best practice” for communicating findings of research driven by research questions that call for descriptive statistics. Let me attempt to piece together three things that presented themselves to me in the last couple of days. ![]()
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