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using Topology and Node Value Differences example: compare national budgets across two years; what agencies disappear? which ones grow large absolutely? grow by large percentage? what other relationships put data in a tree, then encode absolute amount of change, color … Continue reading →

also uses temporal events; looks for temporal associations, considering both order and relative time difference across many records, align by one focal event, as in EventFlow; aggregate into a single timeline; summarize in a histogram on the timeline to compare … Continue reading →

Display Methods and Interactive Visual Query Big Data -> LifeFlow -> EventFlow tools can apply to any domain with events across time traditional medical research model: hypothesis, recruit, observe, analyze, report (takes years) big data model: hypothesis, mine, pull records, analyze, … Continue reading →

patients are harmed by missed steps in complex workflows; most common cause in malpractice litigation some current solutions show alerts in chronological order and difficult to find, no pending ones shown, no notion of lateness, no hierarchy of data model the workflow, … Continue reading →

IOM Report: Health IT and Patient Safety: recommendation – user-centered design and human factors applied to health IT we spend more than any other country on healthcare, but we have poorer outcomes 98,000 unnecessary deaths each year from medical mistakes technology makes … Continue reading →

example: how to choose a new smartphone; a bunch of published physical characteristics + a bunch of personal criteria that are harder to discover; using a few attributes, filter to a smaller group of choices, then dig into each on the … Continue reading →

Medication reconciliation and product comparison medication reconciliation: what is the patient really taking? different sources across times; dosages and periods, brand names, chemical compounds levels of equivalence: form, functional, partial, none Twinlist: spatial layout and animation for reconciliation; very well … Continue reading →

Motivating volunteers to participate in citizen science projects. scientists who study species are becoming extinct citizen science: involve amateur scientists and use crowd-sourcing for species discovery (and other scientific projects) principles of social participation: egoism, altruism, collectivism, principalism volunteers believe … Continue reading →

[140 character limit on Twitter sucks; been losing the #HCIL hashtag when this gets cross-posted] CDC has lots of disaster preparedness; the Zombie Apocalypse is coming soon, need to prepare; social network analysis can help with this taxonomy of zombies: … Continue reading →

[I first mis-read this as Kid-stream, then as Kid-steam. Read as Kids-team.] children are interesting and important; often overlooked in design process; children under 12 experience differently than adults (e.g. keep visual and auditory streams separate, concrete instead of abstract, … Continue reading →