Author Archives: John

About John

Interested in how information intersects daily life, technology, and art. Digital Marketing - marketing ROI in healthcare Collaboration - working in social and collaborative media. Biomedical Informaticist - focusing on patient/patient, patient/provider communication.

Oregon Health Cartogram – Depression by County

(Update Nov 28: Added disclaimer about population health veracity. This graph really is based on the OHA documents, but it has not been vetted by health experts.) My second run with the Oregon cartogram I’ve been developing with some actual data. I … Continue reading

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Oregon Health Cartogram – Chronic Cardiac Diseases by County

This is my first chance to try out the Oregon cartogram I’ve been developing with some actual data. (Update Nov 28: Added disclaimer about population health veracity. This graph really is based on the OHA documents, but it has not … Continue reading

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Reading Tufte

Finished up the first three volumes from Edward Tufte on data information and visualization. While I read a bit a few years ago, and follow data viz on Twitter and the web, it was good to sit down and go … Continue reading

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SQL Fundamentals

Like last week’s effort with Regular Expressions, I’ve been piecing together SQL queries for some time now and decided to work through a lite tutorial. I noticed the website with the Regular Expressions tutorial also offered SQL; so I jumped … Continue reading

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Regular Expressions

To clean up data for analysis, I’ve had to dip my toes into regular expressions. For example, writing a line of instructions that can separate first and last names and removing middle ones from a list of people. To do … Continue reading

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