http://poetry.elcore.net/CatholicPoets/Plunkett/Plunkett29.html
Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
choral settings available on GIA
Such as beautiful text!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Catholic / pro-life work and public health
I went to a job fair at the local School of Public Health, because I am taking a class there. There were some interesting companies, government organizations and NGO's present. I couldn't help but noticed that NARAL had a table recruiting people to promote "women's health." That got me thinking. Why don't pro-life organizations hire graduates from public health schools? Certainly, the people who get degrees in public health, epidemiology, etc. may be biased in their view of "abortion rights" but I am sure there are just as many who are pro-life. Yet they don't have an opportunity to use their education toward educating people about the dangers of abortion. Why don't pro-life organizations make their presence at such events?
Is there an opportunity to create such an opportunity? I am only studying research design in epidemiology for my research purposes at the school. Certainly wanting to defend the defenseless should be enough to start such a movement, but then I am not a public-health person. Is this my excuse for not getting going on this? Are there others who also want to get this going?
Is there an opportunity to create such an opportunity? I am only studying research design in epidemiology for my research purposes at the school. Certainly wanting to defend the defenseless should be enough to start such a movement, but then I am not a public-health person. Is this my excuse for not getting going on this? Are there others who also want to get this going?
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Edward Tufte Course
So I went to the Tufte course today.
We learned about presenting information effectively, as well as becoming better consumers of presentations and reports.
Apparently human eyes can each transmit 10 MB/sec, yet when we make Powerpoint presentations, we don't make use of that capacity. Printed handouts, etc. are much more useful.
Some things I learned:
avoid having legends in your graphs - just add text annotations. Legends in software and such were created for computer manuals, not for human use.
Don't dumb down content in your presentation - if you have clutter or "information overload", it is probably a design problem, not content problem.
Find good presentations/reports and copy their techniques.
As with any good analytical thinking, graphics/figures should also show 1) comparisons, 2) causality 3) credibility of the content/creator 4) be 90% of content you want to present, not extraneous stuff like legends, various lines, etc.
As a consumer/creator of reports, ask yourself:
1) What is the story,
2) Is this credible? Is the author competent?
3) What is the domain of this work? Exactly where is this information relevant? Does it try to go beyond its delimitations or limits?
4) What do I want to see in this? What should I see in this? What do I need to see in this?
a 11x17" paper can present ~200 powerpoint slides-worth of information.
People are good at digesting lots of information quickly if presented correctly.
When showing a curve, the figure should be scaled so that slopes of the curves should have slopes around 45 degrees - it allows the most visual separation of slopes.
Putting your information in context of more information actually clarifies it
Gill Sans is a good font on tables for legibility.
Present your stuff in a high-resolution way - it is most efficient.
We learned about presenting information effectively, as well as becoming better consumers of presentations and reports.
Apparently human eyes can each transmit 10 MB/sec, yet when we make Powerpoint presentations, we don't make use of that capacity. Printed handouts, etc. are much more useful.
Some things I learned:
avoid having legends in your graphs - just add text annotations. Legends in software and such were created for computer manuals, not for human use.
Don't dumb down content in your presentation - if you have clutter or "information overload", it is probably a design problem, not content problem.
Find good presentations/reports and copy their techniques.
As with any good analytical thinking, graphics/figures should also show 1) comparisons, 2) causality 3) credibility of the content/creator 4) be 90% of content you want to present, not extraneous stuff like legends, various lines, etc.
As a consumer/creator of reports, ask yourself:
1) What is the story,
2) Is this credible? Is the author competent?
3) What is the domain of this work? Exactly where is this information relevant? Does it try to go beyond its delimitations or limits?
4) What do I want to see in this? What should I see in this? What do I need to see in this?
a 11x17" paper can present ~200 powerpoint slides-worth of information.
People are good at digesting lots of information quickly if presented correctly.
When showing a curve, the figure should be scaled so that slopes of the curves should have slopes around 45 degrees - it allows the most visual separation of slopes.
Putting your information in context of more information actually clarifies it
Gill Sans is a good font on tables for legibility.
Present your stuff in a high-resolution way - it is most efficient.
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