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Room #14 Is Not a Magical Place

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:October 24, 2014
  • Post category:Etcetera/Newsletters/Point of View
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I have just returned from a week of complete seduction and surrender in La Ville-Lumière-Paris. Ah, Paris: flowing wine, warm and crusty bread, jaw-dropping architecture, subtle yet sophisticated fashions, beguiling…

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Improving the Odds — Are You a Donor?

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:June 14, 2013
  • Post category:Etcetera/In the News/Newsletters/Point of View
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I have been following the case of Sarah Murnaghan, a dying 10-year-old girl who, after a federal judge granted her family's emergency petition, has become eligible to seek donor lungs…

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A Profoundly Moving Data Display

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:May 31, 2013
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Analysis/Design Basics/Etcetera/Know Your Audience/Newsletters/Point of View/Tables
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This past Memorial Day I was greatly moved by news stories about the courage and sacrifice of so many in service to our country. It was also a quiet time…

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We Could Surely Use Another C. Everett Koop Right Now

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:March 8, 2013
  • Post category:Beautiful Minds/Etcetera/In the News/Newsletters/Point of View
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Although he was 96 years old and had a hell of a good run, I was still saddened to learn of the death of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop…

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Pumpkin Wars and Hospital Ratings

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:November 2, 2012
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Analysis/Decision Support/Know Your Audience/Newsletters/Point of View
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Last weekend my husband, Bret, and I traveled to Keene, New Hampshire, to visit our daughter, Annie, who is serving with AmeriCorps|Vista at a school near the town, and to…

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No Grand Vision

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:October 5, 2012
  • Post category:Design Basics/Newsletters/Point of View
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I was recently flipping through yet another design-challenged presentation of healthcare data, and started thinking about a project on the Grand Canyon I'd done when I was in the eighth…

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Mere Mortals and Mortality Data

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:September 21, 2012
  • Post category:Best Practices/Communicating Data to the Public/Data Analysis/Know Your Audience/Newsletters/Point of View/Risk Adjustment/Statistics (is not a dirty word)
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Many, many moons ago when I was a dating girl, I discovered that there were basically two categories of bad dates. There was the date that I hoped might lead…

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Politely Provocative

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:July 27, 2012
  • Post category:Best Practices/Data Analysis/Design Basics/Etcetera/Newsletters/Point of View
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I have been accused on more than one occasion of having the attention span of a gnat. I don't think this is true. Rather, based on evidence demonstrating that people…

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Busted by “Big Data”

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  • Post published:March 9, 2012
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A couple of weeks ago, The New York Times published a really terrific article about how companies like Target use "Big Data" to identify what its customers are likely to…

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The Power of the Scribble

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:January 27, 2012
  • Post category:Design Basics/Etcetera/Graphs/Newsletters/Point of View
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NOTE: CHECK TABLE The Power of the Scribble Recently I was thumbing through Colin Ware's book Visual Thinking for Design when I was reminded of the expressive power of lines.…

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Welcome to my newsletter and blog, Health and Healthcare Data Unleashed, a guide to understanding, presenting and using health and healthcare data, information and evidence. I’ve been writing and posting here since 2010 on a range of topics and resources I’ve encountered in my own data analysis and data visualization journey. You will notice a gap beginning in 2020 as I took time away to work on my book, Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data – I hope you’ll check it out!

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