Data Makes the Maps;Maps Make the Data;
Tom JohnsonManaging DirectorInst. for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico USAt o m @ j t j o h n s o n . c o m@ j t j o h n s o n
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Esri Health ConferenceScottsdale, Arizona USA
August 28, 2012
Presented at Esri Health GIS Conference
Scottsdale, AZ USA28 August 2012
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““GIS: Unifying GIS: Unifying Theory/Methodology Theory/Methodology
for for Journalism and the Social Journalism and the Social
Sciences?”Sciences?”
J. T. JohnsonProf. of JournalismSan Francisco State University
[email protected] Institute for Analytic Journalism
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GIS Center Krouzian Room
Bancroft Library17 April 2003
Important point
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1All disciplines use same knowledge-making process
Fundamental process of all disciplines
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Data In Analysis Info Out
•Sources•Form/file type•Validity•Quality•Cost
• Tools• Available
skill sets• Counselor• Cost: time
& money
•Info Arch.•Available skill sets•Deliver the data•Audience(s)•Updating?
This 3-phase process is relatively traditional.So what’s changed?
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• In dynamic infosphere, no individual can do all this: A team required
• New management focus must be on coordinating cooperation/collaboration• Articulating objectives• Tools?• Training?• Project management
Important point
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2All phenomena possess the same four potential data sets/analytic variables
• Interview transcript• Field notes (notes taken in the
field being studied)• Video• Audio recordings• Images• Documents (reports, meeting
minutes, e-mails)• Images of types of qualitative
data
4 aspects of data in ALL phenomena
“Flurry of Photo ID Laws Tied to Conservative Washington Group”
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The flurry of bills introduced the last two years followed the 2010 midterm election when Republicans took control of state legislatures in Alabama, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The same shift occurred in the 2004 election in Indiana and Georgia before those states became the first to pass strict voter ID laws.
# 1 Qualitative
Aspects of data in ALL phenomena
Qualitative
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#2 Quantitative
1.Start by counting stuff2.Build taxonomy(ies)3.Do basic statistics4.“Hunches” about
what’s going on
Aspects of data in ALL phenomena
QualitativeQuantitative
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#3 Geographic
“External” Geography/geostatistics
“Internal and Interior” Geography
QualitativeQuantitative
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#3 Geographic
Internal or interior Geostatistics
Incidents in hospitals
Aspects of data in ALL phenomena
#4 Timeline of changeQualitative
QuantitativeGeographic
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Integrate timeline and geography
• Need trans-disciplinary skills to determine which aspect is most important?
• How to analyze?• How to present results
Center for Health Market Innovations
Staying a step ahead of diseases• Texas Pandemic Flu Toolkit• Web-based service that simulates the spread of
pandemic flu through state• Forecasts the number of flu hospitalizations• Determines where and when to place ventilators
to minimize fatalities.• Used in emergency situations for real-
time decision-making
• “Contact-network epidemiology” video
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New toolkit demonstrates use of data-driven science to plan for future pandemics
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Computer experiments, along with real world data, generating new hypotheses and diagnostic and treatment applications.Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcgcffQxPc&feature=relmfu
Complexity and Social Network Analysis
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'Digital pill' with chip inside gets FDA green light
• "ingestible sensor" invention.
• The 1 square millimeter device -- roughly the size of a grain of sand -- can relay information about your insides to you, and if you choose, to your doctor or nurse.
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Google Glasses
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Big Challenges: Data In
• Multiple ways to generate, retrieve and analyze health data• Health status precursors• Who sees it/them?
• Status Indicators?Numbers, dials, spark lines, fever charts, • Services needed?• Location for services/patient needs?• Follow-up and status?
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At the end of the day….
• Constant: Data In Analysis Info Out• Your profession probably won’t have
direction or innovative answers about its future• Seek other -- or trans-disciplinary --
methods and processes for insights
• No more 8-hour work day.• 6 hrs “work,” 2 hrs. teach and
learn
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Data Makes the Maps;Maps Make the Data;
Tom JohnsonManaging DirectorInst. for Analytic JournalismSanta Fe, New Mexico USAt o m @ j t j o h n s o n . c o m@ j t j o h n s o n
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Esri Health ConferenceScottsdale, Arizona USA
August 28, 2012
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