(356)EDUCATING OFFICIAL STATISTICS USING GEOVISUALANALYTICS STORYTELLING METHODS

摘要

Official statistics are used as a more or less important background for decisionsespecially in public planning and policy making. However, in education, official statisticsare much less recognized and used than they could be and among the informed publicthey are even less used. Web-enabled Geovisual Analytics is a technique that can helpillustrating spatio-temporal statistical data which for the eye are hard to uncover or evenare not possible to perceive or interpret. We introduce novel “storytelling” means for theeducator to 1) select any spatio-temporal and multidimensional national or sub-nationalstatistical data, 2) explore and discern trends and patterns, 3) then orchestrate anddescribe metadata, 4) collaborate with colleagues to confirm and 5) finally publishessential gained insight and knowledge embedded as dynamic visualization “Vislet” inblogs or wikis with associate metadata. The educator can guide the reader in thedirections of both context and discovery while at the same time follow the analyst’s way oflogical reasoning. This emerging technology could in many ways change the terms andstructures for learning, especially for the young generation. A better understanding of howeducators and students can exploit visualization and its associated science of perceptionand learning is the focus of this paper in relation to the use of official statistical data. Theresults show that the geovisual analytics can be effective for students and it is easy forthem to understand and control the interactive tools. It is sufficient for supporting theapprehension of connections between different kinds of statistical data. The usersatisfaction and learning possibilities are extensive.Categories and Subject Descriptors: I.3.2 Distributed/network graphics, I.3.6: InteractionTechniques, I.3.8: Applications