Tag Archives: data

When is a questionnaire just a survey?

26 Aug 2009 – 22:17

I asked a question on twitter today: Do you consider “surveys” to be different from “questionnaires”? If so, how? This question struck me as I was editing a paper where I was describing a survey (or is it a questionnaire?) that we used to collect data from Mechanical Turk. I was about to use the [...]

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Information-rich visualizations: an example

18 Feb 2009 – 17:51

I came across this data visualization today. It’s really just a plot, but it conveys a lot of information in a very simple, intuitive manner. And I’ve been especially sensitive to this lately since I’ve been working on some information-rich visualizations of my own data. Here is the plot: It’s from a paper on gender [...]

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