I read three articles:
- Scaling the Heights (and Widths) Vol 9, No 3
- A Political Statistic, Vol 16, No 4
- A Centenary Celebration for Will Burtin: A Pioneer of Scientific Visualization, Vol 22, 1
I chose, A Political Statistic and A Centenary Celebration for Will Burtin: A Pioneer of Scientific Visualization and summarized them here.
Please let me know what you think and ask your questions.
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Hi,
Good presentation.
For the first article
1. In your slide 5, you mentioned that an arbitrary game could be played with two scales. Then in slide 6, you mentioned that in figure 3, the left and right scales can be reset to more practical bounds. How could you determine the right ratio of the two scales so it will not distort the fact?
2. Following the previous question, figure 3 is not starting from 0, do you think if that would affect the visualization of this result? It seems that the reading score only has 5% fluctuation, he just enlarged that area to show some change.
In the second article,
3. Why gram-positive bacteria ordered by the efficacy of penicillin while the gram-negative bacteria are ordered by the efficacy of neomycin? Why not being consistent? Did the order change help the reader to decide which drug is best for what bacteria?
Great presentation Sima!!
I have the following three questions based on your presentation
1. In Figure 3, I belief the log transformation of per pupil expenditure can decrease the variability. What is your opinion?
2. Referring to the Nightingale’s Rose plot, why did they arrange the segments in ascending order? and how is it important?
3. In the article 2, do you think the “pop chart” is more appropriate for Figure 4 & Figure 5?
Hi Sima,
I like your nice and very organized writing. I had few questions when I was reading reading your presentation and the articles.
For first article:
1. Figure 3 we see a huge dip in reading score after 1980, I am curious to know whether the article mention anything about the this ?
2. Some of the figures show the amount of per pupil expenditure looks like exponential, do you think that transfer the data into log scale might be helpful?
For Second article:
3. Could it be possible to draw any conclusion which antibiotic is more effective for which type of bacteria (gram positive or gram negative), based on the graphs ?