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The GVU's WWW User Survey is a survey conducted by the Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center (GVU) of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The survey has been conducted since 1994, with alterations and additions made each year up to the most recent finalized survey, which was completed in 1998. This research project determines information about Internet users and finds out how people are using the Internet. This includes a focus on how people are using the Internet for commerce. This project provides an overview of Internet users, their characteristics, and their behavior on the Web, while also tracing changes over time.

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"The author of the research project notes that as a web survey the problem of respondents self-selecting themselves exists (Gupta 1995). The author admits that this problem exists and that it is serious, but concludes that it is not fatal. The author also notes that self-selection applies equally to other methods of collecting data, with the bias removed because it is understood and able to be accounted for and corrected. The author also suggests that the results of the research have similarities consistent with non-Web surveys. As the author states, "the predominance of well-educated, young, affluent males has been noted in other surveys too" (Gupta 1995). This similarity is used as a basis for suggesting that the problem of self-selection occurs only to the same degree in the Web research as it does in non-Web surveys. The problem with this suggestion is that this is being based on one minor similarity, which is not enough to determine that the two survey methods have similar levels of self-selection occurring. To solve this validity problem, the survey must determine the extent to which self-selection impacts on the results as compared to non-Web based surveys. This information could be provided by designing a research project specifically to achieve this comparison."

Tags:internet, commerce, technology

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Data visualization is the use of interactive, sensory representations, typically visual, of abstract data to reinforce cognition. That, in itself, is a method or technique of decision-making. To further break it down, the most popular and widely used tool of data visualization is the pie chart. This paper presents an introduction of the pie chart and it's most common applications. It explains when it should and should not be used and provides examples in color.

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"Pie charts work well when the values of the percentages of the whole differ greatly from each other. In other words, you do not want your pie values to be within one or two digits from each other, which would be indistinguishable on the chart to the naked eye. Another moniker for pie charts is: do not use a pie chart when there are more than six parts to the whole. Having too many values for comparison on the chart will distract from the clear simplistic message and instead offer a complex confusing assortment of data."

Tags:350, phoenix, uop

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This paper aims to study the effects of teaching using frequency maps in a visual representation. The paper explains that this will further strengthen the accuracies of future probability judgments through studying participants in a number of sessions to see if they can adapt what they learned from their original briefing. The paper relates that this data will be compared to the independent variable, or the participants who were given no such briefing and are expected to have much lower accuracy in determining probabilities.

Tags:heuristics, cognitive, probability

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The paper discusses the process of landscape mapping and offers some appropriate visual interpretations of such mapping. The paper likewise examines some of the new terminology invented by figures such as James Corner and Christophe Girot with regards to mapping as landscape urbanism. The paper also looks at the peculiar mapping process that permits such drawings to uncover the "invisible" features of the subject areas. The paper evaluates the successes and/ or failures of the maps created by several prominent architects and designers and looks closely at the aesthetic and quantitative qualities of these maps. Particularly, the paper questions how the modes of representation found in these works contributed to the overall discourse on the intersection between art, urban information and the role of visual representation in presenting insightful landscape data.

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"The following chapter discusses the process of landscape mapping; in addition, the next several pages will also offer some appropriate visual interpretations of such mapping. Proceeding onward, the ensuing chapter will likewise examine some of the new terminology invented by figures such as James Corner (contemporary landscape architect and theorist), and Christophe Girot with regards to mapping as landscape urbanism. Not to be overlooked (and this ties in with the initial sentence in this paragraph), time will be devoted to looking at the peculiar mapping process that..."

Tags:landscape, mapping, art

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" This paper shall explore the current discussion regarding our innate cognitive methods of formulating accurate predictions. What was discovered in the first experiment was that response formats proved incredibly valuable in determining accuracy of the prediction. However, experiment 2 showed a statistical difference when the formats where changed to incorporate other than __% and __ out of __. What resulted was that far less participants made better predictions in the frequency formatted questions. This then solidifies the reasoning for the difference being dumb luck and its weight on the original experiment."

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Tags:dumb luck, frequency, format

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The paper challenges the assumption that the Visual Basic self-help book can teach some of the most complex programming skills in a short 24 hours. The paper discusses the major drawbacks of this book, including the faulty assumption that each chapter is just one hour, the fact that it doesn't go into great enough depth on advanced functions and that there is nothing on data integration or XML. The paper explains that this book needs to be at least four books in a series, but the publisher wanted to drive up the perceived value to the reader and therefore the price of the book. The "Teach Yourself in 24 Hours" has alluring and broad market potential. The paper concludes that the book should be called "Mastering Visual Basic" instead and the key points on programming and integration should be included.

Outline:
24 Hours Assumes The Perfect Storm for Learning
The book's Most Major Flaws
Summary

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"Even the most advanced students who are ready for tackling this book would take at least a week's worth of accumulated time testing, verifying, and learning the concepts of the book. When the publishers state learning the subject in 24 hours, they are only speaking of time-on-task, not the ability to comprehend and use the insights gained.
"If this sounds like the publishers are over-committing and under-delivering, they are. It may take an accumulated time of 24 hours to read the book, yet comprehending and applying the complex concepts of this book will take at a minimum days for the most advanced students, to weeks for those just learning a programming language."

Tags:comprehension, application, computer, data, XML

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"The short-term memory experiment to be described in this paper is an attempt to verify the Bieder-Szafran experiment, which is a variation of the Buschke experiment of 1962. Previous to the time of Buschke's experiment, short-term memory studies had been conducted according to the classical method of simply presenting a given amount of information to a subject, who was then asked to recall or recognize, either in oral or written manner, as much of the material presented as he could. G. A. Miller used this approach in the study in which he determined the memory span for humans to be seven, plus or minus two. Miller also stated that the accuracy and amount of recall depended not on the information content of the material, but instead on the number of items presented. This was in 1956."

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This paper explains KDD as the overall process of discovering useful knowledge from data and then goes on to describe the steps in this process. Emphasis is placed on feature selection, a popular research area in pattern recognition, statistics, and data mining communities.

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"Data mining is the application of specific algorithms for extracting structure from data. The additional steps in the KDD process, such as data preparation, data selection, data cleaning, incorporating appropriate prior knowledge, and proper interpretation of the results of mining, are essential to ensure that useful knowledge is derived from the data. Blind application of data mining methods (rightly criticized as "data dredging" in the statistical literature) can be a dangerous activity easily leading to discovery of meaningless patterns."

Tags:machine, learning, databases, statistics, data, visualization, computerization, groupings, patterns

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This paper provides a brief description of relational database management systems and looks at how Microsoft Access is probably the most user friendly of programs, with easy to use templates and downloadable applications. The paper also examines how Access allows non-IT people the ability to easily create database prototypes, to test application theory on data, and how it can be used to manipulate data in such a way that multiple relationship models can be extracted from the raw data.

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"Access has within it the ability to produce simple menus and reports that can be constantly updated as new data as entered without having to rewrite and application or program. This is in part due to the fact that Access is powered by VBA, "the Office version of Visual Basic" (Dragan, 2006). This allows users to add designs controls and validation settings that are easy to structure and strong enough to withstand constant changing of the data that the script is being applied. A built in Wizard program simplifies the process even further, and even the most novice of computer programmers can easily design and use these database menu controls."

Tags:visual, basic, data

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This paper discusses how people, in general, like to get a visual picture of what they are hearing about and how, through the media and constant representation of statistical data as hard fact, numbers can control people's opinions on issues. It shows how one of the largest issues regarding statistics and their appealing nature is the fact that most of us are innumerate. It also shows how, in addition to innumeracy, the public's opinion of ideas often leads to skewed views on issues; statistics can become so alluring to activists that they can say something that will change a large group of people's minds on an issue, and then they will get what they want.

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"Although even though some statistics are wrong, people want to believe them so bad that they will ignore all logic just so that they will have a numerical view of the situation. Perhaps the biggest real life example of this is a social statistic that Joel Best-in his book Damned Lies and Statistics-describes as "The worst social statistic ever... Every year since 1950, the number American children gunned down has doubled" (Best 1). To anyone using this statistic to promote gun control, this statistic is gold, and it sounds believable too. But if you analyze it you'll find otherwise."

Tags:data, activists, innumeracy, media, numbers, schools