Friday 17th May 2013

James Nicholson, FSS (SMART Centre, Durham University)

SMARTCensus: Visualising health data

The SMART Centre at Durham has just started an ESRC funded project: INCENSE - Influencing Policy and Practice by Stimulating Public Debate about Census Data which will produce visualisations of some of the multivariate detailed characteristics tables for the 2011 UK census which will be released over the next few months. This talk will explore the potential of data visualisation to illuminate the stories in the detailed characteristic census tables, and invite the audience to identify which tables they would most like to see visualisations for, especially in the area of health.

The talk will also offer illustrations of visualisations of health data sets produced for the Reasoning with Evidence´ project, with a discussion of the potential they offer to improve school pupils’ confidence in working with quantitative information. We will argue that the intuitive nature of the interface offers hope that naïve users in the general public might be able to grasp the main features of complex datasets presented in these visualisations.

This is a joint CSAP (Centre for Spatial analysis & Policy), School of Geography, University of Leeds; -and- Leeds-Bradford RSS Seminar.

The meeting is being held at 1pm, Friday 17th May 2013, in Room 1.40, School of Geography. With Coffee served before at 12.30pm.

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We would be grateful if you would indicate your expected attendance by completing the form below, so that we can arrange the correct number of coffees and chairs:

Useful web links:

SMART Census, Durham Univ. (incl. Charles' Biography): http://www.dur.ac.uk/smart.centre/

SMART INCENSE Census Project: http://www.dur.ac.uk/smart.centre/smartcensus/