tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post7143669349159230900..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: MicroChartsHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-12697562106690208522008-04-27T16:35:00.000+00:002008-04-27T16:35:00.000+00:00AMAZINGsmbAMAZING<BR/><BR/>smbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-34763440390764429232008-04-26T05:39:00.000+00:002008-04-26T05:39:00.000+00:00bendis, chess is an interesting example, because i...bendis, chess is an interesting example, because it can, of course, be represented on the page, but no amount of cleverness with design will enable the non-player, or the novice, to see on the page what a good player sees.Helen DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-38244008215962257132008-04-26T05:38:00.000+00:002008-04-26T05:38:00.000+00:00AG - this was not my first choice of graphic, but ...AG - this was not my first choice of graphic, but Excel couldn't do any of the things I wanted to try. Excel would not be my first choice of software (it is not exactually unusual to envisage a graphic and find that it cannot be produced in Excel), but it has been a while since I used R and I would not be able to use it without a lot of backtracking. <BR/><BR/>I suppose dividing one's life into decades is arbitrary in some sense, but it is one that has some power over the way people live their lives. It's not uncommon to think: I've spent my 30s doing X, am I still going to be doing X 10 years from now? 20 years from now? Or: I'm almost 30, is this what I'm going to be doing with my life? <BR/><BR/>I think now: I've just turned 50, I've spent the last 10 years dealing with publishing crap, do I REALLY want to spend another 10 years like this? There must be SOMETHING else I could do. And the thing is, when I have this kind of discussion with myself, I think: well, maybe X, Y or Z, but then I'd have to go back to the States. So I can't do X, Y or Z. Isn't there anything ELSE I could do? <BR/><BR/>So I don't know that ten-year divisions are unmotivated; apart from the first they do correspond to various crises whose acuteness related, precisely, to the advent of the turn of a decade. Since the first consideration in addressing a crisis was always to solve it in a way that made it possible to stay out of the country, it's not surprising that the main feature of a temporal representation of divisions of place of residence is the change from the years under 20 (living wherever my parents happened to go) and above (not).Helen DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-32950302857407693402008-04-26T02:18:00.000+00:002008-04-26T02:18:00.000+00:00I don't mind the miniature pie-charts, but I don't...I don't mind the miniature pie-charts, but I don't like the grid, since it breaks arbitrarily at 10-yr points and also invites the reader to find irrelevant patterns by reading down the page (just as in, when reading a book, one can become distracted by the diagonal patterns of blank spaces that go down the lines of text).Andrew Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715992780769751789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-13889018217044829012008-04-25T21:38:00.000+00:002008-04-25T21:38:00.000+00:00One other area where shared / agreed upon informat...One other area where shared / agreed upon information about symbols can allow two people who speak completely different languages) to share a very intricate experience is the game of chess.BENDIShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768108647231824406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-12546044055876907352008-04-25T16:08:00.000+00:002008-04-25T16:08:00.000+00:00The Microcharts would strike home with Edward Tuft...The Microcharts would strike home with <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte" REL="nofollow">Edward Tufte</A>, the inventor of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline" REL="nofollow">Sparklines</A> and a great proponent of condensed data presentation. He offers some impressive historical examples of data presentation in his several books.<BR/><BR/>Oh, never mind, a quick google shows that Microcharts are based on Tufte's work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com