Exhibition: Making Beauty: Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva

The making of the Smoke – A Tobacco Story Exhibition

The paper presents data on the organisation of the Museum tobacco exhibition, i.e. the professional processing of the material from the Smoking Accessories collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, insight into the holdings of other museums, archives, private collections and individuals, and field exploration. Particular emphasis was placed on national references on the cultivation and c...

The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making

Proper linear models are those in which predictor variables are given weights in such a way that the resulting linear composite optimally predicts some criterion of interest; examples of proper linear models are standard regression analysis, discriminant function analysis, and ridge regression analysis. Research summarized in Paul Meehl's book on clinical versus statistical prediction—and a ple...

POETRY-MAKING AND POLICY-MAKING Arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast

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Discovery Exhibition: Using Spatial Treemaps in Local Authority Decision Making and Reporting

At Leicestershire County Council we are using spatial treemaps to analyse labour markets and commuting behaviour. This novel visualization technique, presented at InfoVis 2008, has resulted in a number of insights and discoveries. Transport planners in our organization indicate that the graphics are effective and have advantages over alternatives. As researchers in the local authority we report...

Exhibition of Instruments