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Lynn Cherny, Ghostweather: Data Consulting

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Data Analysis and Presentation. Consulting by Lynn Cherny, Ph.D. Talk Slides and Older Essays. A few posted slide decks:. Mining Dwarf Fortress for Stories. 2014) A talk about analyzing the game's XML data, creating a context-free grammar, and generating stories in English about the characters. Workshop on Topic Network Visualization given at The Graphical Web 2014 and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, code repo on github. OpenVisConf (Boston, June 2013): Bones of a Bestseller: Visualizing Fiction. Ppt), a t...

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Lynn Cherny, Ghostweather: Data Consulting

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Data Analysis and Presentation. Consulting by Lynn Cherny, Ph.D. Data and Data Design Consulting by Lynn Cherny. I'm a data analyst and visualization design consultant. Located near Boston. I love finding patterns in complex data and making data visual, comprehensible, and actionable. Key concepts inspiring my work:. Messy data collected, cleaned, analysed, and visualized. I can handle numeric and textual data (topic models, clustering, parsing.). If I can't help you, that list might be able to! At compa...

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Lynn Cherny, Ghostweather: Data Consulting

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Data Analysis and Presentation. Consulting by Lynn Cherny, Ph.D. Expertise and Capsule Summary. I'm a Boston-based data analysis consultant. With 20 years industry and research experience in data analysis, customer research, and interface design. Current specialties:. Data mining and analysis. Data scraping, processing and cleaning, general statistics, clustering/modeling, variable interactions, charts and graphs. Got lots of text? I can help you parse it, mine it, summarize it, navigate it, view it.

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Excel for Educators: ASCD 2013: Meet the New Data Tools

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Sunday, March 17, 2013. ASCD 2013: Meet the New Data Tools. They're the same as the old data tools. I'm at a conference this weekend. It's ASCD. S annual conference. For those of you unfamiliar with this organization, it's mission is to develop "programs, products, and services essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead." It is my all-time favourite conference and the place where I get the greatest amount of professional learning. Spoiler alert: It isn't pretty. The first two things that caugh...

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Excel for Educators: Session Recap: Data Displays as Powerful Feedback

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Monday, April 13, 2015. Session Recap: Data Displays as Powerful Feedback. I had the pleasure of presenting at the ASCD annual conference last month. Each year, I stretch myself a little further in making connections between ideas, as well as between technology and content. My logic model that framed my presentation was. I was slated for 8 am on the last day of the conference- -not quite the worst possible time slot, but just about. So, I had a small, but awesome crowd. Lots of comments afterward...I'm f...

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Excel for Educators: Big and Little

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012. This material is reposted from my other blog. But I think it's worthy of sharing here, too. I like the idea of visuals which provide educators with both macro and micro levels of information. After all, school is not about making widgets. It's about learning with human beings. What are other ways we can "humanize" the data analysis process? And then, there is this article. What's this all mean? Posted by The Science Goddess. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Viz of the Day.

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Excel for Educators: March 2015

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Sunday, March 22, 2015. ASCD 2015: Data Tools. This is the third year that I've been on the hunt for high-quality data tools in the Exhibit Hall at the ASCD annual conference. The first year. 2013) was downright depressing. Last year was better. I ran across a couple of promising tools, although neither are represented at the conference this year. Here are the trends I'm seeing this spring. His reply: Because it looks cool. No, honey.it doesn't. We have to demand better from our vendors. Viz of the Day.

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Excel for Educators: Looking at Disproportionality

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Sunday, April 19, 2015. The concept of disproportionality. First, you need to know the enrollment numbers and percentages. For each subgroup. In other words, how many possible students are there who could participate in an athletic program, be subject to suspension/expulsion consequences, fail Algebra, or yes, pass the state test? Many schools report gender as close to 50/50 percent, as one might expect, but variations do exist. Don't assume that you're starting off with equal pools of participants.

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Excel for Educators: May 2015

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Thursday, May 7, 2015. Show the Data: Cluster Charts. In the last post, we explored the idea of adding bump(s) charts. This spreadsheet will eat your soul. I get a lot of spreadsheets sent to me that look like the one on the right. I hate these with a fiery passion for a variety of reasons:. Too much "ink" in the data-to-ink ratio. With all of those little boxes, I don't know where to look. Not to mention that all of the data is colored in. What's the point? Our population is mostly male and nearly every...