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OutlineProcessPolicy Design Design Problem Users Context Content: The Data Story DesignVisual Variables: Bertin Information Design: LATCH Visual Mapping Iterative Design Usability Testing Design Considerations Typography Hierarchy/Architecture
ExamplesGeographic Information Systems Emergency Management Maps Election Coverage Earnings and education attainment Facebook growth (location, time, category) NAUDL Smart Disclosures Research toolbox FOIA 1997 Quasi-Public Open or Shut? McMartin poster Community of Trust RyeCatcher Experience Map CB PSAT reports
Definethe problem
Exploreusers, content&context
Generate concepts and ideas
Refine the design
Evaluate with users
User-centered design process
Adapted from Cooper, Deal/O’Leary, Evenson.
Build the product
Process: Visualization for policy
• Problem
• Users/Context/Content
• Data Story
• Design (Visual Variables)
• Test/Adapt
• Launch
Problem definition
Users/Content/Context
Data StoryTest/Adapt
Design
Launch
Information Design
L o c a t i o n
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T i m e
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- Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety
Visual Mapping
Mackinlay, J.D.: Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information, Computer Science Department, Standfort University, 1986
Iterative Design
• Sketching and low-fidelity prototypes
• Medium-fidelity prototypes
• Hi-fidelity prototypes
Charts and visualizations
• Chart types
• Orientation and labels
• Keys and legends
• Comparison
• Typography
• Tufte, Playfair, Tukey
Chart types
• Line charts
• Pie and doughnut charts
• Bar charts
• Area charts
• XY (scatter) and bubble charts
• Stock charts
• Flow charts
• Box plots
• Column charts
• Maps
FormatPoster
Paper
Digital
• Page architecture • Levels of reading • Reading distance • Color/BW and reproduction • Audience and time
• Number of pages • Sequence • Narrative • Color/BW • Print/digital
• Sequence • Narrative • Time • Interactivity • Audience and format
User Research TM
Design solutions beyond words
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Research ToolboxTwenty-three research methods to discover what your users really want.
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1 Survey or QuestionnairePrepare a Web-based or paper survey and distribute to participants from your target audience. Word questions carefully to avoid leading or confusing the user, and interpret the results knowing that what people say they do and what they do are often quite different.
Focus GroupBring together a small group of carefully selected participants to discuss a certain set of topics relevant to your concept. A facilitator should keep the group on topic and ensure that everyone contributes to the discussion.
InterviewPrepare a set of questions targeted to your concept, and ask users in a face-to-face setting. It is useful to have two researchers per interview session, so one can guide the discussion, and the other can take detailed notes.
Knowledge MiningLeverage the experience of people who are uniquely qualified to offer insights—early adopters, power users, wizened veterans. Draw out their knowledge in surveys, focus groups, interviews, or brainstorming sessions.
Guided StorytellingIn this interview technique, ask the participant to walk you through a real-life scenario pertaining to your concept. Guided Storytelling questions often begin, “Tell me about the last time you...”
Guided TourAsk a participant to give you a tour of their space relevant to your concept. Pay special attention to how they customize their environment.
Personal InventoryAsk participants to show you and talk about the contents of their purse, briefcase, pockets, car, or desk drawers. Your goal is to understand what people deem important enough to carry with them or store nearby, and why it makes the cut.
Web EavesdroppingSpend some time immersed in Web chat rooms or discussion boards related to your concept. To avoid disrupting the community, save questions of your own until the end of your immersion period.
Beeper StudyIssue your participants beepers or cell phones. Instruct them to record what they’re doing each time they are paged. (You can also ask them to fill out a brief survey, or to photograph their surroundings.) Several pages per day over the course of a week yield a spontaneous sampling of the participants’ daily experience.
Photo DiaryPrepare a journal for each of your participants with space to paste photographs and make notes. Issue each participant a Polaroid camera, and ask her to record her experience with regard to a certain topic.
Adopt a UserIf your goal is to reinvent an existing product, volunteer to act as technical support for someone who uses that product frequently. Each time your adopted user contacts you with a question, you will learn about how he understands the product, what he hopes to accomplish using it, and what steps he is likely to take to remedy a problem.
ShadowingArrange to spend some time following people from your target audience throughout their normal daily activities, making detailed notes about your observations.
Fly on the WallChoose a location relevant to your product concept. Carefully observe how people interact with each other, with the environment, and with existing products, processes, or technology.
Video ObservationArrange to record the activities of a given space over a period of time. Leave the camera long enough for participants to get comfortable, and scour the footage for insights into behavior. View the footage in time-lapse to reveal patterns of activity.
AEIOUIn any observational setting, use lists and sketches to record the activities, environments, interactions, objects, and users. The process of recording each of these components in detail often reveals breakdowns in the system, which translate into opportunities for your new product.
Task AnalysisList and diagram the steps your participant takes in order to achieve a given task. The task might be something as broad as choosing a bank, or as simple as logging in to verify an account balance.
Behavioral MappingDiagram a given space, and record the movements and activities of people within that space. This careful observation can reveal breakdowns, coping mechanisms, and frequently repeated behaviors— all of which can signify opportunity for a new product, process, or technology.
Prototype EvaluationAs early in the design process as possible, put low-fidelity prototypes in front of users for feedback and evaluation. Don’t present the concept. Find out how they would try to use it without much explanation.
Think Aloud ProtocolAsk your participant to complete specific tasks using a prototype of your product or a related existing product. Ask them to think out loud—to verbalize every thought—as they try to complete the tasks. Quiet participants might need gentle reminders to think aloud as they proceed.
Draw Your ExperiencePrepare your participants by asking them to record their habits or feelings with regard to a certain topic for about a week. At the end of the week, provide an inviting array of drawing tools, and ask them to visually express their experi-ence and feelings. Listen carefully to the stories they tell as they describe their illustrations.
Card SortPrepare your participants as described in Draw Your Experience. Provide a small deck of cards using words and/or images relevant to your concept, and ask your participants to arrange the cards in ways that make sense to them.
CollagePrepare your participants as described in Draw Your Experience. Invite a small group of participants to build collages from provided materials. A mixture of ambiguous words, images, stickers, and shapes allows the participants to project their own meanings. Ask them to present and explain their collages.
Velcro ModelingPrepare your participants as described in Draw Your Experience. Assemble a toolkit of compo-nents common to the kind of product you hope to design. For example, if you’re designing a remote control, provide various shapes that might act as the body of the remote, and provide easy to adhere buttons in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Invite a small group of users to design their own product using those components.
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These research methods are a sampling of the tools available as you work to understand your users. Each method varies by both the kind of research activity taking place, and the sort of needs you’ll discover.
In some cases, all you need to do is ask. The users can articu-late their needs. At other times, the research can lead both you and your users to a better understanding of what they really want. The right methods will uncover latent needs—needs the users themselves haven't even recognized.
These methods are best for gathering information quickly and directly. Use caution with these methods, since what people say and what they do are often quite different.
Tell Me
The places and things people interact with provide clues about what they value, what tasks they want to simplify, and what kinds of tools or technology they prefer. These methods give you access to those insights.
Show Me
These methods offer a practical alternative to following users around 24/7. Instead, arrange for them to give you reports of their activities, so you just get the highlights.
Get a Report
The sooner you start turning ideas into prototypes, the sooner you can put those prototypes in front of real users and catch your own misconceptions. Test it early, test it often—and save yourself time and money!
Test It
Research methods that tap into the creativity of real-life users can lead to extremely valuable insights. These methods can help users express concepts or feelings that they might not be able to put into words otherwise.
Get Creative
Watch and ListenThese methods show you what tasks and goals your users work to achieve on a daily basis. More importantly, they help you recognize obstacles to your users’ progress, which often translate into golden opportunities for your new product.
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A Systematic Study of Motions to Reduce Criminal Sentencesin Rhode Island Superior Court (1998-2003)
by Laura Braslow and Ross E. CheitRighteous Research Brown University
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• Most states allow for sentence reduction• Judicial discretion is generally unconstrained• Few jurisdictions require a statement of reasons
AcknowledgementsThe authors thank the following individuals for providing researchassistance throughout this project: Bailey Langner, Jesse Maniff, RobertPowers, Jacquelyn Rudis, Stephanie Skaff and Owen Washburn.Special thanks to L. Arthi Krishniswami for designing this poster.
• Motions identified electronically• Universe sample of 597 cases• All files checked by hand• Race data obtained from prison system
Based on a universe sample of all cases where Motions to Reduce Sentence were brought over a five-year period, this study utilizes descriptive statistics, multivariate models and textual analysis to describe the practice of sentence reduction in the aggregate and to isolate some of the determinants of motion outcomes. Key variables include case and statutory factors (type of crime, filing window, violations), defendant factors (age, gender, race, prior criminal history), representation (private attorney, public defender or Pro Se), judges (individual judges, whether the judge hearing a motion to reduce is the original sentencing judge), and qualitative factors (reasons for reduction given by defendants).
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Most jurisdictions allow criminal defendants to bring post-conviction motions to reduce their sentence. Conceptually, the primary justification for sentence reduction policies is to allow for modification of original sentences which may have been excessive or unfair when compared to co-defendants or other defendants as a group. Other reasons may includemercy, or rewarding defendants for good behavior. This mechanism could be an avenue for correcting inappropriately long sentences, but the virtually unfettered discretion given to judges in ruling on these motions could also be an invitation to abuse. This study seeks to empirically examine the practice of sentence reduction in the Rhode Island Superior Court system.
How often to judges reduce criminal sentences? How much does the practice vary by judge? How much does it vary by crime? Are some of the stated reasons for sentence reduction more successful than others?What are the determinants of outcomes of Motions to Reduce Sentence?
Poster prepared for Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York University School of Law (November 9, 2007)
Research challenges: The Rhode Island State criminal records database reflects only whether a Motion to Reduce Sentence was filed. It does notrecord the outcome of that motion, nor does it reflect any resulting change in sentence as a result. Key documents such as defendants' filed motions do not routinely appear in the physical case file, and are often boilerplate. Written judges' orders recording the outcome of motions are hardly ever part of the physical case file.
Outcomes of Motions to Reduce Sentence by Filing Window (n=534)
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Variable Coefficient Odds Ratio [Exp(B)]Constant -3.122 0.044
Case and Statutory Factors In 120 Day Window 0.292 0.747 Pre-MRS Violation -0.372 0.690 Offense Type Violent Crimes 0.672 1.958 Sex Crimes -0.631 0.532 Child Sex Crimes 1.013 2.753 Theft 0.921 2.512 Financial Property Crimes 0.118 1.125 Drug Crimes 1.410*** 4.094 Nuisance Crimes 22.955 -- Traffic Crimes 0.929 2.533 Destruction Crimes 0.563 1.756 Other Crimes / Unknown -- --
Attorneys and Judges Attorney Type Private / Court-Appointed 1.203*** 3.329 Public Defender 0.971** 2.640 Pro Se -0.146 0.865 Other / Unknown -- --
Judges Clifton 1.128** 3.090 Dimitri 0.616 1.852 Fortunato 2.256**** 9.543 Gale 0.579 1.784 Gemma 1.238** 3.449 Indeglia -0.960 0.383 Israel 1.256* 3.512 Keough 1.833*** 6.256 Krause 0.154 1.167 Pfeiffer 1.094*** 2.985 Procaccini 0.826* 2.284 Rodgers 1.296* 3.656 Sheehan -0.746 2.109 Thompson -1.193*** 3.297 Thunberg -1.469*** 4.346 Williams -0.740 0.477 Other -- --Motion Judge Different from Sentencing Judge -0.173 0.842
Defendant Characteristics Prior Criminal History 0.109 1.116 Defendant Age 0.000 1.000 Defendant Gender -0.292 0.747 Defendant Race White -0.012 0.988 Black -0.056 0.946 Hispanic -0.057 0.945 Other/Unknown -- --
Qualitative Factors Defendant Arguments for Reduction Mercy 0.007 1.007 Rehabilitation / Reform 0.328 1.389 Excessive Sentence -0.110 0.896 Procedural 1.319** 3.741 Witness / Informant 0.232 1.261 Other / Unknown -- --
Model Chi-square 95.903**** 95.903****Pseudo R2 0.237 0.237% Cases Predicted 75.8 75.8-2 Log Likelihood 550.845 550.845
* Significant at p < 0.10** Significant at p < 0.05*** Significant at p < 0.01**** Significant at p < 0.001
Case and Statutory Factors• Statutory factors (motion brought within filing window, motion brought after a probation violation) are not statistically significant.• Most offense types are not significant – however, sentence reductions are significantly more likely to be granted in cases involving drug crimes.
Attorneys• Sentence reductions are much more likely to be granted in cases where the defendant is represented by a private attorney.• Sentence reductions are somewhat more likely to be granted when the defendant is represented by a public defender.
Judges• Individual judges are the most strongly and consistently significant determinant of outcomes of motions to reduce sentence. • Whether the judge ruling on a motion to reduce sentence is the same as or different from the sentencing judge is not a statistically significant factor in motion outcomes.
Defendant Characteristics• Individual defendant characteristics do no appear to be significant in whether motions to reduce sentence are granted or denied.• Defendant race, gender, age and prior criminal history were all tested, and none were found to be statistically significant.
Qualitative Factors• The reasons given by defendants in support of their motions to reduce sentence are not very significant to motion outcomes.• The only reason which has a statistically significant impact on motion outcomes is procedural arguments, for example the need to transfer a defendant to federal custody.
Model Significance and Explanatory Power • The model of determinants of motion outcomes is highly significant, and has reasonable explanatory power.
Logistic Regression Results -- Motion Outcomes, Granted or Denied (n=534)
Next Steps in Multivariate Analysis •The last major component of the analysis of motion outcomes (grant or deny) will be to incorporate initial sentence lengths into the model as a potential determinant.
• We also plan to produce two parallel models to isolate the determinan ts of reduction length for cases where sentence reductions are granted, one based on absolute reductions (i.e., number of months taken off of a defendant’s sentence), and one based on the percentage of the initial sentence which is removed through a granted motion to reduce sentence.
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note: percentages are based on total cases
Outcomes of Motions to Reduce Sentence (n=534)
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Figure 3: Probability of Granting Sentence Reduction Motion, Severe Case, by Judge
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Figure 1: Overall Probability of Granting Sentence Reduction Motion, by Judge
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Figure 2: Probability of Granting Sentence Reduction Motion, Mild Case, by Judge
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The researchers asked 55 finance-trained individuals to rate the importance of various factors in investment decisions. Profit margins and past and future stock price information were rated most important; the aesthetics and design were rated amongst the least important.
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Student-Centered Circles of Support
Inner Circle includes the students’ parents, family members, or other custodians. They frequently make decisions on behalf of the student. They have access to all student information, and serve as gatekeepers, providing consent for services and access to student information as needed.
The Broader Learning Environment encompasses enrichment experiences available to students outside of school, including sporting events, field trips, and other extracurricular activities. Providers’ access to student information is frequently limited, while consent and permission are granted tacitly.
The People and Resources that are available to enter a student's circle at any time create the foundation for the community of trust. When engaging with students, these resources are granted appropriate levels of access and the necessary information to meet the students’ needs.
Supported with appropriate technology and tools, in-school and out-of-school
providers become a dynamic network, working together to provide optimal support for each student’s academic, behavioral, and social development. Increased transparency, accountability, and communication among providers ensures that needed services are provided and that no student slips through the cracks.
In-School Providers typically have access to student information by virtue of their role in the school. Parents frequently grant in-school providers access to necessary student information as part of a consent process with schools at the start of the academic year.
Academic Support
Out-of-School Providers frequently need explicit consent from custodians to provide services, and might become part of a student’s circle of support at any point in the academic year. RyeCatcher makes it easy for parents to provide, track, and manage consent for services with out-of-school providers.
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Help parents and students navigate the special education process by providing information and guidance.
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Humanize process by orienting the experience aroundbuilding a circle of support of people and other resources.
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multiple potential followups to manage IEP/ILP process: goal setting, intervention tracking, celebrating goal achievement.
multiple potential 2-3 year reevaluation cycles.
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Parent must identify signs & signals of potential disability at home or in school, and learn about how to find appropriate support for child. If child is diagnosed at birth, parent proceeds to evaluation and IEP report stage.
Resources to help identify whether child has special need.
Resources to help families of students with physical disabilities.
uncertainty, fear, anxiety, helplessness
Resource or tool to inform parents about questions to ask in the context of the phase.
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If student exhibits signs of a special need, parent and school perform different types of screening. Screening process varies between disability types. Additionally, school, parent and community provide student with “natural supports”, Universal and/or classroom-based interventions.
Resource for information about screening process, legal requirements, and forms of screening available in and out of school.
Descriptions, definitions and examples of natural support and universal intervention.
Resource that connects parents with natural supports outside of school.
Resource that explains response to intervention at the school level.
confusion about the process, feeling of inequity, helplessness, anxiety, anger about process and lack of control
Resource that describes roles and respon-sibilities in and out of school at each step in process.
Parent can request a formal evaluation of child by a school psychologist to determine whether accommodations and an individualized education program are necessary. Evaluations may also be performed by independent professionals.
Resource that explains the evaluation process in a step-by-step fashion.
Resource to explain legal framework for evaluation process. (Rights of the child.)
fear, anxiety, financial worry, concern for equitable treatment of child, confusion about school’s legal requirements
Resource that describes the data access, security, and privacy framework and implications. (HHS, PII, etc.)
Receive results of the evaluation report containing: recommendation, category of disability (if one has been identified), diagnosis, IEP goals, strengths and needs of the student. If an IEP has been recommended, parent will receive a procedural safeguard document.
Resource that describes appeal process, re-evaluation and legal framework.
Resource that provides step-by-step walkthrough of procedural safeguard, and its implications.
Resource that describes next steps for a child that has/does not have an IEP.
confusion, deluge of documentation and legal information, anxiety, anger at diagnosis, worry about labeling child
Resources to help find parents like me.
Goalbook
Review annual progress. Modify and update IEP goals. Review interventions, both in and out of school, to determine progress and achievement of IEP goals.
Resource that collects and presents parents with available resources, service providers, and other tools to help my child succeed and achieve goals.
Resource or tool to help parents track progress aligned to goals and curriculum skills.
when goals are met, positive feelings; when goals are not met, negative feelings, fear and anxiety; helplessness; agency
Resource that provides parent/teacher and advocate ratings and reviews of service providers in local/regional areas.
Goalbook
Provide transition plan detailing transition of student out of school and into the work-place. Required for students aged 14 or older.
Resource that helps parents and students find service providers, and other resources to help students transition out of HS.
Resource that describes the types of supports available for students after HS.
Resource that lists vocational, technical, career, or educational service providers that help child prepare for a career.
fear, anxiety, confusion about how the process and legal requirements vary from those that apply in the school environment
Resource or tool to help parents track meetings, documents, evaluations, assess-ments, reports, and other interactions.
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Year to complete high school and enroll full-time in college:
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Determining the Meaning of Words
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You answered correctly 29 of 48 critical reading questions and earned 29 points. 11 of 14 easy questions 15 of 23 medium questions 3 of 11 hard questions
You omitted 1 question(s). You answered incorrectly 18 question(s) and lost 5 point(s).
You answered correctly 16 of 39 writing skills questions and earned 16 points. 4 of 11 easy questions 9 of 19 medium questions 3 of 9 hard questions
You omitted 0 question(s). You answered incorrectly 23 question(s) and lost 6 point(s).
Selection Index146
Percentile 47 compares your performance with college-bound juniors
The Selection Index (S.I.) is the sum of your critical reading, mathematics, and writing skills scores. NMSC uses the S.I. as an initial screen of over 1.5 million students who enter its scholarship programs (see reverse).
Entry RequirementsBelow is information you provided on your answer sheet.Full-time high school student: Yes
Year to complete high school and enroll full time in college: 2010
Years to be spent in grades 9—12: 4
U.S. citizenship: Yes
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
(NMSC) Programs
Passage-BasedReading
Description: In the com-puter engineering major, students learn to design and develop computer and com-puter-related systems. These systems include software systems, hardware systems, and combined hardware/soft-ware systems. Students take courses in basic sciences, mathematics, and engineer-ing science and design.
Associated Skills: Computing, basic sciences, mathematics.
Recommended High School Courses: English 4, precollege mathematics 4, biology 1, chemistry 1, physics 1, social studies 3–4, history 2–3, for-eign language 2–4, music .5, visual arts .5, and computer science .5–1.
Determining an author’s purpose or perspective
How to improve: Authors write for a variety of purposes, such as to inform, to explain, or to convince. When you read, try to determine why the author wrote what he or she wrote.
See questions 20, 42, 48.Understanding complex sentences
How to improve: Ask your English teacher to recommend books that are a bit more challenging than those you’re used to reading. Practice breaking the sentences down into their component parts to improve your comprehension. Learn how dependent clauses and verb phrases func-tion in sentences. See questions 5, 33.
Understanding sentences that deal with scientific ideas
How to improve: Read magazine articles about scientific subjects to improve your comfort level in this area. See questions 8, 36.
Dealing with probability, basic
statistics, charts, and graphs
How to improve: Practice solving problems that involve basic probability, basic count-ing, and finding the average (arithmetic mean), median, and mode. Look for charts and graphs in newspapers and magazines, and practice interpreting the data in them.
See questions 13, 14, 19.
Understanding geometry and
coordinate geometry
How to improve: Review geometry units in your textbook involving perimeter, area, volume, circumference, angles, lines, slope. Familiarize yourself with the formulas given at the beginning of math sections of the test.
See questions 7, 11, 13.
Making connections among
mathematical topics
How to improve: Practice problems that require combining skills acquired in different math courses, such as problems that use combinations of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. See questions 7, 11, 15.
Being precise and clear
How to improve: Learn to recognize sentence elements that are ambiguous and confusing. In your writing, choose words carefully and connect them for clear meaning. See questions 4, 6, 8.
Recognizing logical connections
within sentences and passages
How to improve: Use the writing process to help you revise your draft essays. Work with classmates and teachers to clarify meaning in your writing. See questions 8, 28, 29.
If your Selection Index places you among the 55,000 high scorers who qualify for program recognition, you will be notified next September.
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