Comments on: Interactive data: The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care points the way http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/ Strategies for Internet citizens Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Luk http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-37025 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:22:26 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-37025 tramadol

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-33463 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:27:25 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-33463 “For this piece, we used a new web mapping framework that we’re developing in-house.”

You’re working for the NYTimes, then? Excellent!

Do you think we’ll see the definition of interactivity expand to include the kinds of social processes being enabled by Swivel, Dabble DB, Many Eyes, etc?

]]> By: Matthew Bloch http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-32731 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:50:46 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-32731 I’m one of the people (along with Vu Nguyen and Erin Aigner) who worked on the NYTimes interactive graphic that John mentions in his post. Generalizability is also important to us, as there often simply isn’t time to put together an interactive graphic from scratch. For this piece, we used a new web mapping framework that we’re developing in-house.

Re: the previous comment, ArcInfo is an essential GIS tool, but of limited use for creating interactive web maps. The link you posted was to a free online cartographic tool called MapShaper that I created last year when I was a grad student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Feel free to try it out :)

]]> By: leMel http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-31830 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:23:15 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-31830 Thanks so much! The first thing I did was search out information on the three people credited for the NYTimes infographic; Erin Aigner, Matthew Bloch, and Vu Nguyen. I learned that:

- ArcInfo is *the* system for creating data maps (there is also an ArcViewer)

- Ms. Aigner is very accomplished in the field of GIS and has a great interview over at http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/archives.php?issue=20070104&style=web&length=full#gisnyt

- The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is turning out some award winning students

- The journalism of data has some surprising challenges, such as the fact that after you finish a data display, you are often obligated to destroy/discard the data! That means no libraries for future mash-ups or reference. Many other are revealed in Ms. Aigner’s interview.

- Programmer/Cartographer Matthew Bloch has a great development site! http://www.mapshaper.org/blog/index.php

Thanks for that key to this treasure trove!

]]> By: David Burns http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-31068 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:58:27 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-31068 Great post, showing how “good enough” can get you online quickly.

Here’s another quick example – more like two hours instead of five minutes, but that included registering, and tracking down the data.

http://www.sealrock.com/africa.html

Right now it’s primitive: meaningless totals, no control over the legend, colors, no ability to handle anything other than numeric data …. but it’s good enough for a first effort.

]]> By: datalibre.ca · Jon Udell on Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-30890 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:19:02 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-30890 [...] [more …] About [...]

]]> By: Ken Kennedy http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-28054 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:11:40 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/11/interactive-data-the-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care-points-the-way/#comment-28054 Great stuff, Jon. The emergence of these sorts of tools for adhoc and on-the-fly data analysis is one of the unrealized consequences of “Web 2.0″. Too many people see the specific applications, and don’t realize that the process can be generalized. Admittedly, it’s still far easier for those of us who can hack on code, but Dabble, Pipes, Google Spreadsheets, etc., etc. are starting to change the nature of analysis.

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