Structuring content
visualization of visualizations. http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
-visit the link for an interactive version (!!!)
revealing my self
-in the true spirit of cross-posting and becoming ever more transparent.. 
I love rumbling around in other peoples playlists.. even though it is a bit scary that people will now be able to critique my music taste, see what music is in what playlist (what I call my playlists) What music fits in “obsessions”/ what I play more of. -Btw. Cornelis Vreeswijk is good for late night working, and theres been a lot of it lately..
Yes, I know I can hide it and set it to “private”.. and No, I’m not going to.
from twitter with love
Collected and presented by twopular.com
We’ve always been told that health is something one keeps to oneself. But we’ve always talked about how we feel as a part of finding understanding and togetherness with others. The social web makes this even easier: just a quick search..
predicting behavior
“The research using mobile phone billing data found that people are exceedingly predictable. Whether you commute to a cubicle or roam the map for your paycheck, your location on at any given time can likely be predicted with 80 to 90 percent accuracy. Similar research using the global positioning technology in mobile phones has tracked student movements around college campuses. Potential applications for health interventions or health policy include understanding how people interact with their environment (also known as spatial epidemiology), emergency planning, and positioning health messages.
Examples of data collection include the use by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School, of iPhones reprogrammed to gather accurate health data about the elderly: How far they walk and at what pace, how many social interactions they have and whether they are with individuals or groups. The audio sensors and GPS within the phones allow this type of measurement far more accurately than the typical survey-based approach. In fact a new study that used accelerometers to measure physical exercise found for the first time that Mexican-Americans are the most likely of any socio-cultural or racial group to reach national physical activity goals, in part due to their propensity to be employed in manual labor. Previous survey-based approaches had underreported their activity levels.
Mobile sensing technology has been proposed for sentinel systems that forecast coming disasters, be they disease, warfare, industry or weather related. Geographic Information Systems and online technology has the potential to quickly spread evidence of such events. In some cases this is already being done: The voluntary online disease surveillance system Promedmail was the first to report on the outbreak of SARS. Why not equip select mobile phone users with the ability to report when “something strange or different” appears to be happening, whether it’s a sudden influx of sick refugees, birds falling from the sky, or a lack of rainfall?
Text messaging of healthy behavioral reminders can successfully lead to behavior change, increasing sunscreen usage, for example. In New Orleans, clinicians are now using text messages to remind diabetics to check blood sugar and send readings back to the office, or take medications during Mardi Gras celebrations that otherwise spell an entire week of potentially life threatening lose of diabetic control.
Public health communication has long been a challenge, using technology that people carry with them everyday as tools for them to report their status, the status of the environment around them, or to provide them with data, only makes sense.”
from textinthecity
hopes and goals
I am hoping that when we note experiences/collect personal data, -and then look at it over time, we’ll be able to make better, more informed decisions for our wellbeing based on the patterns of information of what relates to, -or even causes, particular good or bad experiences during our everyday flow..
-from data to information to knowledge. -to wisdom..
img. from the previously posted IBM video /internet of things.
simple visualization: january to march
how are you / how are your friends, and normality compared to what?
test to visualize different sets of perceived life quality, where a yellow day symbolizes a very good day and a blue symbolizes a bad day.
GE “take a new look at health”
“What are the major health issues facing Americans today? What are some of the most common conditions, and how are they related to one another? What can we do to improve our health?”
Found at http://www.ge.com/visualization/health_visualizer/
Looking at health from a disease-perspective is thus not new, but the data is visualized in such a simple and elegant manner, and playing with combining demographic datasets are extremely interesting and fun.
(thanks to S. for sharing)
Ingrid
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