#infomatics

[woolytoyhorse]

This page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nglegege1o has this chart:

and it is interactive and it is a delight of graphic design and information conveyance.

[robinsoncenter]

Health Informatics and Health Information Management Application Deadline Reminder: May 1, 2017

Hello,

The HIHIM autumn 2017 deadline is May 1, 2017.  All UW current students must have all of their application materials sent to the department and post marked by May 1.  Complete application packets must be sent by registered mail. Classes begin in autumn 2017.  http://www.healthinformationmanagement.uw.edu/admissions/current/

Transfer and post bac applicants must submit two application packets, one to the HIHIM department and their UW Admissions materials to the UW Admissions office. Each must also be post marked by May 1:  http://www.healthinformationmanagement.uw.edu/admissions/transfer/    http://www.healthinformationmanagement.uw.edu/admissions/postbac/

If you have questions regarding the application process or if you encounter students with questions, please feel free to refer them to me.

Thank you!

Connie Montgomery, M Ed | Counseling Services Coordinator |Health Informatics and Health Information Management| 206-616-1064| www.healthinformationmanagement.uw.edu

[notesfromundergroundfm]

Making Conversations - 12 noon Tuesday 28th October

Bronac Ferran talks to four artists who work with dynamic circuits and systems often encouraging audience involvement in open ended and participatory ways, reflecting indirectly on the history of science and engineering and setting up dialogues between past and present: Luciana Haill, neuro-feedback artist in residence at Department of Informatics, University of Sussex; Magz Hall, co-founder Radio Arts, Senior Lecturer Canterbury Christ Church University; Dianne Harris, founding director and curator of Kinetica-Museum; and, from Rio de Janeiro, Mariana Manhaes, who makes organic machines with electrical elements and animatronic devices.

http://resonancefm.com/listen

[justinhope]

I have been in blog-silence mode of late, for which I am sorry. Rumors that I’ve taken my Elton John act on the road are, I’m pleased to assure you, incorrect. Instead, I’ve been hard at work on my...

[worsethandetroit]

Chromaroma (by Mudlark)

An  informatics scheme that takes your travel data and turns it into a social gaming system.

I'm actually less interested in the idea of 'playing' the game, and far more interested in how this kind of info can be opened up and used for practical purposes.

How many times have you wondered if you use the most efficient/quickest route to and from work, for instance? Or if there is a way to combine journey to reduce the total number of trips. 

(via Beyond the Beyond)

[planetsedge]

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

Larry Wall, qtd. by Tim O'Reilly

[ziyadnazem]

"Visualizing the Medical Data Explosion"

Anders Ynnerman, chair of scientific visualization at Linköping University and founder of the Norrköping Visualization and Interaction Studio (NVIS), gave a talk at TED (Göteborg) about how modern tomography machines, huge data sets, and ultra-fast graphics cards are changing medicine.