Came across SimAuthor, a Northern Colorado company that specializes in Flight Simulation. They appeared to garner customers from all over the place: military sectors, flight and aviation industry, and university with an aviation program. (Why is SIUC not listed?)
But what’s really interesting (to me) is their flight training analysis software… of course we are talking about AAR here. As always, I failed to understand why the instructional technology folks are simply NOT getting this. Isn’t this kind of training and analysis important to our field? I do believe it was what started or field… but then somewhere in the past, a folk in the road appeared, and people have been travelling down the other path.
Oh, well, you can’t win them all.
Found a Predictive Probabilities Analysis software for download at the Dept of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics (BAM Software Download Site), maintained by the MD Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas.
This is primarily a software to support clinical trials in which the endpoint is binary or time-to-event (TTE).
After considerable search and thinking session, (and of course, conversation with Mike Young always help), it become increasingly clear to me that survival analysis may be even more appropriate than data mining. In some circle, data mining may be construde as fishing for data, and is always suspect. A more direct data analysis method would of course be desirable, but which one?
I have already come across various time-stamping methods, and the most closely “sounding” one may be time-series analysis. However, after considerable search into the method, it turned out to be closer to financial analysis (as in moving averages) than what I am hoping for. No go…
Then, I came across some literature on time-to-event analysis… (as in this BMJ article). I think I have found the right thing. (Mike seemed to think so, too.)
You have heard and even used SecondLife, but have you heard of SecondHeath – the SecondLife’s healthcare virtual world from United Kingdom?
Second Health is located in the SciLands, a specialised region of Second Life for Science, Technology and Educational applications. Most of these projects are about professional and patient education, collaboration and health strategy.
This is an experimental, innovative and efficient means of communicating complex healthcare messages as well as illustrating what healthcare of the future could look like.
The design of the virtual hospital in Second Health is based on the principles and recommendations outlined in the recently published Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action.
WebMonkey has a short write-up about Twitter’s StreamGraph. This is a new text-mining product by Twitter (after it acquired Summize. It visually maps the latest 200 tweets containing a particular given word/phrase. One can also mine a user’s Twitter contribution using the “@user” search function call.
StreamGraph for
“The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with the search word. One of these series together with a time period are in a selected state and coloured red. The tweets that contain this word in the given time period are shown below the graph. You can click on another word series or time period to see different matches. In the match list you click on any word to create a different graph with tweets containing that word. You can also click on the user or comment icons and any URL to see the appropriate content in another window. If you see a large spike in one time period that hides the detail in all the other periods it will be useful to click in the area to the left of the y-axis in order to change the vertical scale.”
The video and computer games are gaining traction in the enterprise and educational arenas as a means to teach new skills to a generation of young adults raised on video games. According to marketing consultancy The Apply Group, between 100 and 135 of the Global Fortune 500 will use gaming for instructional applications by 2012. [citation]
IBM has quite a bit of resources in Serious Games, if one know where to look.
