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Excel for Educators: Show the Data: Cluster Charts
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Thursday, May 7, 2015. Show the Data: Cluster Charts. In the last post, we explored the idea of adding bump(s) charts. This spreadsheet will eat your soul. I get a lot of spreadsheets sent to me that look like the one on the right. I hate these with a fiery passion for a variety of reasons:. Too much "ink" in the data-to-ink ratio. With all of those little boxes, I don't know where to look. Not to mention that all of the data is colored in. What's the point? Our population is mostly male and nearly every...
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Excel for Educators: ASCD 2013: Meet the New Data Tools
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Sunday, March 17, 2013. ASCD 2013: Meet the New Data Tools. They're the same as the old data tools. I'm at a conference this weekend. It's ASCD. S annual conference. For those of you unfamiliar with this organization, it's mission is to develop "programs, products, and services essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead." It is my all-time favourite conference and the place where I get the greatest amount of professional learning. Spoiler alert: It isn't pretty. The first two things that caugh...
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Excel for Educators: Session Recap: Data Displays as Powerful Feedback
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Monday, April 13, 2015. Session Recap: Data Displays as Powerful Feedback. I had the pleasure of presenting at the ASCD annual conference last month. Each year, I stretch myself a little further in making connections between ideas, as well as between technology and content. My logic model that framed my presentation was. I was slated for 8 am on the last day of the conference- -not quite the worst possible time slot, but just about. So, I had a small, but awesome crowd. Lots of comments afterward...I'm f...
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Excel for Educators: Big and Little
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012. This material is reposted from my other blog. But I think it's worthy of sharing here, too. I like the idea of visuals which provide educators with both macro and micro levels of information. After all, school is not about making widgets. It's about learning with human beings. What are other ways we can "humanize" the data analysis process? And then, there is this article. What's this all mean? Posted by The Science Goddess. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Viz of the Day.
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Excel for Educators: March 2015
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. ASCD 2015: Data Tools. This is the third year that I've been on the hunt for high-quality data tools in the Exhibit Hall at the ASCD annual conference. The first year. 2013) was downright depressing. Last year was better. I ran across a couple of promising tools, although neither are represented at the conference this year. Here are the trends I'm seeing this spring. His reply: Because it looks cool. No, honey.it doesn't. We have to demand better from our vendors. Viz of the Day.
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Excel for Educators: Looking at Disproportionality
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. The concept of disproportionality. First, you need to know the enrollment numbers and percentages. For each subgroup. In other words, how many possible students are there who could participate in an athletic program, be subject to suspension/expulsion consequences, fail Algebra, or yes, pass the state test? Many schools report gender as close to 50/50 percent, as one might expect, but variations do exist. Don't assume that you're starting off with equal pools of participants.
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Excel for Educators: May 2015
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Thursday, May 7, 2015. Show the Data: Cluster Charts. In the last post, we explored the idea of adding bump(s) charts. This spreadsheet will eat your soul. I get a lot of spreadsheets sent to me that look like the one on the right. I hate these with a fiery passion for a variety of reasons:. Too much "ink" in the data-to-ink ratio. With all of those little boxes, I don't know where to look. Not to mention that all of the data is colored in. What's the point? Our population is mostly male and nearly every...
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Tamara Munzner, UBC Home Page
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Department of Computer Science. University of British Columbia. Graphics, Visualization and HCI Lab. Tmm (at) cs.ubc.ca, Phone:. 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada. X661, in X-Wing extension behind ICICS/CS building. By appointment (email me). Other pages: VAD Book. My research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both user-driven and technique-driven perspectives. See the Publications. Task Abstractio...
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Excel for Educators: December 2013
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Saturday, December 28, 2013. When Excel Gives You Lemons. Earlier this month, I was presenting to a room full of educators. The focus was on all the things that go into communicating effectively with charts. This was certainly no in-depth workshop.we could have spent days kicking around ideas and working through all the questions. It was more of a discussion about why we (in general) do a crap job presenting data when there is so much riding on these. But, I digress. Where do you click on the toolbar?
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Excel for Educators: Books and Links
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There is a wealth of information out there on using Excel and building data visualizations. While there is nothing specific for education, you can still learn a lot from the views offered by the business world. These are some of my favourites. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis. Information Dashboard: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. By Nathan Yau from Flowing Data. Go there to find a variety ...
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