Author Archives: cconley

Revisiting the Healthcare Slopegraph – A Python implementation

Posted on June 6, 2012 by cconley

Last summer I shared an adaptation of Tufte’s slopegraph using data from the  Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences‘ (ICES) 2011 Quality Monitor report in the post Education and Health Care – Using Slopegraphs to Understand Complex Systems.  While this initial … Continue reading →

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Census 2011: Ontario Population Pyramid

Posted on June 1, 2012 by cconley

Statistics Canada has released the Age and Sex data set for 2011.  A traditional visualization for this kind of data is the population pyramid.   The population pyramid is a modified version of a stacked bar chart with the division between … Continue reading →

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CSSE 2012 – Topics Trending in Education Research (Top-TIER)

Posted on May 26, 2012 by cconley

This weekend, education researchers from across Canada will be traveling to  Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo to participate in the Canadian Society for the Study of Education’s (CSSE) Annual Congress.  As is traditionally the case, Ontario is … Continue reading →

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Reshaping the Country

Posted on May 6, 2012 by cconley

Maps are one of my favorite approaches to presenting information.  However, they are just as vulnerable to abuse, misuse and overuse as every other form of data visualization.  Traditionally, maps employ color ranges, textures, symbols and boundary widths to describe … Continue reading →

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John Hattie: Visible Learning in Toronto

Posted on April 27, 2012 by cconley

On April 18th, John Hattie (Visible Learning) spoke in Toronto.  During his presentation, participants shared resources and links on twitter (#HattieTO).  A compilation of these tweets can be found here. For those who were unable to attend either the April … Continue reading →

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