From roswell@umbc.edu Wed Jun 28 10:38:03 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA35028 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:38:02 -0700 Received: from research.umbc.edu (roswell@umbc7.umbc.edu [130.85.6.7]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA11117 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:38:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (roswell@localhost) by research.umbc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA3692570 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:38:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: umbc7.umbc.edu: roswell owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:38:00 -0400 From: Marjorie Roswell To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Animation In-Reply-To: <395A320F.D6697656@sph.emory.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is it fair to "critique"? well, not to wait for an answer: some aspect of the animation I like, and some I don't. The overall sense of animated data is "cool." I like the contours. The colors are "cool." (But I didn't like the use of dark green for the lowest intensity, and red for middle intensity.) It's hard to read the graphic text on my screen resolution (1024 x 768) Edward Tufte's section on animation is well worth reading in his book "Visual Explanations" (page 20). He wouldn't approve of the changing 1996 1997 1998 1999 etc... Actually, I didn't even see it there, for the longest time. Better to have a progress bar, essentially, keyed with the years underneath. Also, the stop/restart buttons in the page didn't work. (though now I see that they works in Netscape, but not my copy of IE5.) I better watch out. I'm sure folks'll be ruthless if I ever get this lyme animation done! What software did you use for this animation? I want to try it too! Margie On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Lance Waller wrote: > For an example using Dade County and animation (two of > Marjorie's original questions!) see > > http://www.sph.emory.edu/~abarcla/dade/ > > For maps of Hepatitus B cases 1984, 1986-1990 based on > some work with CDC. > > I should note that these data are from a passive surveillance > system (i.e. Drs/hospitals are supposed to report cases, but > there is not follow-up to see who actually reports) so any > patterns you see are a mixture of (a) population density, > (b) disease pattern, and (c) reporting practices. With > respect to (c) we have separate animations for cases reported > by private physicians and cases reported by hospitals. .