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Program Evaluation: IV. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, Miss Marple, Sam Spade
Click on the images to zoom. The fictional detectives would have been great program evaluators. All looked at all types of data.Miss Marple was a model of pleasantry who could work her way into an...
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[Almost Free] Strategies to Improve Healthcare
There are a number of things that can be done to cut the cost of healthcare while, at the same time, freeing doctors and others to do their jobs better. These improvements cost almost nothing to...
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Self Centered: An American #MindMap 2013
Filed under: Congress, General, Meaningfulness, Mind Map, Personal Observations, Quirky, Rant, Stoopid Tagged: Congress, healthcare, inane, insane, looney tunes, lunacy, mind map, mind mapping,...
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The Future is Now: Mind Mapping 3.0
I would categorize the pioneering efforts of Tony Buzan and others as Mind Mapping 1.0 and the parameterizations and resulting computer programs by ThinkBuzan, Topicscape, Mindjet, and others as Mind...
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[Baker's Dozen of] Ways to Improve Mind Maps Purported to Present “Expert”...
If you can tell us something about each of the areas listed below (when relevant and if the information is available , your mind map is probably quite significant. Click map to zoom. Filed under:...
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In Praise of “Little” Data
Big data this, big data that. Wow. At the end we will have better ways to sell underwear, automobiles, and “next day” pills (although in the latter case politics and religion might actually trump...
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Program Evaluation and Research are NOT the Same
Please click on the graphics to zoom. Filed under: Evaluation, General Science, Health Science, Healthcare, History, Learning, Meaningfulness, Medicine, Memory, Mind Map, Professional, Program...
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When Healthcare Big Data, Academia, and Industry Collide ….. splat!
Filed under: Academics, Algorithms, Big Data, Evaluation, General, Healthcare, Learning, Little Data, Meaningfulness, Mind Map, Personal, Personal Observations, Professional, Program Evaluation,...
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Meet Irv Oii, Star Data Journalist
Irv Oii is known to many international news organizations and researchers as a star data journalist. Being a home worker (although home may be the UK, Ohio, the Middle East, Central Africa, Hong Kong,...
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Don’t believe a psychology (self help) mind map or infographic unless it...
I guess it’s just me … I search Google for sites with “psychology mind maps” and I get lotsa pages returned. Of course very FEW of these pages let you know where the ideas, recommendations, and...
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Nomenclature: computer-assisted mind mapping: CAMM
A significant number of individuals are drawing mind maps with computer programs. Others still draw them by hand. I think we need to start calling computerized mind mapping by the term...
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in mind mapping there is no real alternative to your fave program
click to zoom. Filed under: Mind Map, Personal, Rant Tagged: mind map, mind mapping
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here’s why the effects of #mindmapping have been UNDERestimated in the few...
Let’s be honest, there is not enough empirical, hard scientific evidence that mind map based learning programs are as effective as there should be. In fact there is FAR less evidence to support...
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#research and #evaluation questions for #mindmapping studies (including...
Since I first posted this 8 hours ago, my colleague Dr Hans Buskes (@hansbuskes) has been sending me various design questions and suggestions. I added a paragraph at the bottom in blue to clarify...
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neurological impairment, mind maps: 1 of many
I think it is fair to say that most individuals will immediately mention loss of memory (specifically Alzheimer’s Disease) as the major component of neurological decline. But there is much more to...
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thinking in one word per #mindmap branch
Filed under: Mind Map, Visualization Tagged: Buskes, Buzan, content is Queen, mind map, mind mapping, mindmap, visualization
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Learning to “Write” a #MindMap Others Can Read
Stop and think about this. Did you learn to write a several page document when you were in primary school? Of course not. The first few short words were followed by longer words and then short...
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V1: 7.05.2013 Basic Neurological Research Possibly Relevant to Demonstrating...
As I age (and have time during my retirement), I have been reading a lot about the neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Lewy Body Dementia, FTLD) and upcoming crises in the healthcare...
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#workflowy and #imindmap, part 2 (organizing the data of your life)
A few posts ago, I mentioned a new web, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad app called Workflowy that lets you develop a semi-free-form outline of anything. I have been creating an outline of my life and today I...
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The “Down Side” of Mind Mapping
At times you would rather not remember … [click twice on image to expand to full size] Filed under: Mind Map Tagged: education, Huba, mind map, mind mapping, mindmap, mindmapping, quirky
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