Monitoring complex processes
September 30, 2002 | Edward Tufte
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Seth Powsner of the Yale Medical School and I wrote 2 articles on displaying data for monitoring medical patients several years ago. These articles are now posted in the NEW section.
The information architectures shown are designed to depict a complex multivariate flow of real-time data, provide some historical context, and indicate if any part of the process is in trouble. These architectures might be helpful for the display of quality control data, portfolio management, project monitoring, project management, as well as tracking the condition of medical patients.
he discussion of medical interfaces in my Visual Explanations (pages 110-111) is based on these articles.
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