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Thomas Goetz TED Talk: It is Time to Redesign Medical Data
In his TEDMED talk, Thomas Goetz, executive editor at Wired Magazine and author of the book “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine”
discusses the issues surrounding medical data, and how it has the inherent power to drive behavior change.
More particularly, he analyzes how we tend to communicate messages about health to people (e.g. mainly through conveying images of fear) and makes the bold call to make such health information more relevant and personal (e.g. by unpacking personal choices). Soon he focuses on the current practice of conveying lab test results by way of numerical tables, and explains how this is the worst information presentation possible. He then presents a compelling visual redesign of these reports, which aim to provide more insight to lay patients, and ultimately should empower them to act on the information shown.
Watch the talk below.
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User reactions to fee-based content models could affect advertising on news sites
The Path of Protest: an Interactive Timeline of Middle East Protests
Whenever everything starts to look like a treemap or a network hairball, it is refreshing to see there are still some new ideas around. The Path of Protest [guardian.co.uk] by The Guardian forms a literal interpretation of a path-as-a-visualization, as it aggregates and represents the recent flood of pro-democracy rebellions in the Middle East.
The interactive timeline starts with the self-burning of a single man around December 2010 in Tunesia, and then follows the chain of events along parallel country-specific paths, until today. The color of the event flags posted along the way denotes different categories, such as political moves, regime changes, local protests or international responses.
Thnkx Aaron.