We’ve covered the power of one’s own personal social connections with medical school & residency as an example, visualizing with LinkedIn using Inmaps, and Facebook using TouchGraph. The most intriguing visualization tool I’ve encountered is a bit unexpected: one that was made to highlight privacy issues and the NSA’s...
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We’ve covered the power of one’s own personal social connections with medical school & residency as an example, and visualizing with LinkedIn using Inmaps. How do you visualize your friends & connections in one screen, using Facebook? Touchgraph, an older Java application, seems to be the best way at visualizing your Facebook...
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My last post spoke on weak ties vs strong ties, and how important a social network is for “private information, access to diverse skill sets, and power” (Uzzi). The concept of weak ties first came from Mark S. Granovetter, currently a sociology professor at Stanford University and formerly at Johns Hopkins University. Granovetter introduced the...
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Hack-a-thon events bring software developers, business developers, designers, and dreamers together to think up, build, and create projects. Within the past few years, hack-a-thons — also known by other names like code-a-thons or appjams — have encouraged quick turnaround times for projects. These are extraordinarily popular in the San Francisco / Silicon...
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Rotations are one of the most jarring and simultaneously stimulating things about medical school. Every two to four weeks, medical students and resident physicians switch different teams, different environments, with a whole new set of personalities and experiences. Will there be an angry leader for the next month? A competent but brash intern? Or a...
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At one of Dr. Yellowlees’s Health Informatics seminars, Dr. Nesbitt led us on a tour of UC Davis Health System’s newest buildings, the Center for Health & Technology at UC Davis. This multi-story building includes some amazing new methods of improving education, including virtual endoscopy, mannequins that breathe, and even tele-medical...
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