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Researchers create new visualization tools to study global health

Researchers create new visualization tools to study global health | e-Xploration | Scoop.it
Researchers use data visualization to make global health data more accessible (Visualisation is key http://t.co/4NGqWFbEbP)

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It’s a new dawn for global health data borne of necessity, mind-numbing numbers, Netflix and a desire to avoid insanity.

 

“For our own sanity, we needed to create a new way to look at this stuff,” said Peter Speyer.


Speyer, head of data development at Seattle’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, explained why he and his colleagues are transforming a massive collection of health data known as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) into a stunning collection of powerful online and interactive visual tools. Go to the link; below is just a screen grab. Seriously, go there and try these out. You’ll have fun even if you don’t know yet what you’re doing.

 

Today, Bill Gates and Speyer’s boss, IHME director Chris Murray, officially unveiled some of those tools aimed at allowing anyone (even you) to dig deeper into these global estimates arrived at by some 500 researchers working in collaboration worldwide for five years on more than 200 million results tracking the impact of nearly 300 causes of death and disability in 187 countries.

 

Phew. It makes your head hurt just to read that sentence. Imagine trying to compile a complete report including all of the numbers, statistics and charts.

“That’s one of the most exciting things about this phase of the project,” said Murray, who with his long-time partner in death-and-disability number crunching, Alan Lopez of the University of Queensland in Australia, has been trying for decades to create a reliable yardstick for measuring what’s going on in global health.

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L’usage des outils informatiques en analyse des données qualitatives - [Adjectif]

L’usage des outils informatiques en analyse des données qualitatives - [Adjectif] | e-Xploration | Scoop.it
La Recherche Qualitative constitue un type de recherche en pleine évolution et elle a été métamorphosée par les technologies informatiques.

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Pierre Levy's curator insight, March 11, 2:57 PM

Le terme d’Analyse Qualitative désigne tout processus technique ou intellectuel pour traiter, manipuler, explorer et interpréter des données issues d’une Recherche Qualitative dans le but d’identifier des séquences, repérer des modèles, comprendre des processus, former des catégorisations ou des classes d’objets et émettre des hypothèses et des conjectures concernant les aspects (sujets, objets ou événements) du monde en question. L’analyse des données qualitatives est souvent plus intuitive et moins systématique que lorsqu’il s’agit de données quantitatives. Le problème de l’analyse des données qui proviennent de la recherche qualitative constitue un de plus cruciaux points de cette approche. À la différence de la recherche quantitative, la recherche qualitative ne suit pas l’approche scientifique basée sur la méthode hypothético-déductive.