1. Visualizing Data NIMBioS Tutorial
Computational Thinking and Cyberlearning in Biology
July 6, 2010
Ethel Stanley, BioQUEST

2. Cyberlearning
“This pedagogical change is not about technology per se. This is not about distance learning… not about students being able to access lectures by some of the world's leading professors...
Rather, this represents a change in the relationship between students and teachers in the learning process.”
Tapscott, D. and A. D. William Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! EDUCAUSE Review,
45(1): (January/February 2010

3. “Professors who want to remain relevant will have to abandon the traditional lecture and start listening to and conversing with students — shifting from a broadcast style to an interactive one.”
Tapscott, D. and A. D. William Innovating the
21st-Century University: It’s Time! EDUCAUSE Review
45(1) : (January/February 2010)

4. Cyberlearners use technology to seek answers, but frequently find new questions.

5. Gapminder.org

6. Looking at data: Gapminder

7. Group Actvity
Go to gapminder.org. Select a category for the y axis. Select time on the x axis. Run the simulation. Any surprises?

8. HealthMap http://www.healthmap.org/fifa

9. Looking at data:Worldmapper
Can download Excel file with data and notes

10. Pneumonia Deaths
Pneumonia caused 6.9% of all deaths worldwide in 2002, an average was 634 deaths per million people per year.

11. Rabies
surveillance/wild-animals.html

12. Google Docs Motion Chart
Visualize your data
Insert data into Google Docs spreadsheet
Add Sheet 2
Insert Motion Gadget (old version)
Choose the range for data - Sheet1!A1:D30
Select axes variables
Select color and size of bubbles
 Google Docs Motion Chart
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13. Wordle