{"id":3672,"date":"2012-10-30T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2012-10-30T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:03:42","slug":"icon-array-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"Icon array generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TOOL TO REPRESENT PROBABILITIES IN AN EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND WAY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iconarray.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3674\" title=\"iconarray\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/iconarray.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written before about using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2010\/12\/03\/some-ideas-on-communicating-risks-to-the-general-public\/\">information grids when communicating risks to the general public<\/a>. We like them. Turns out they are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.sjdm.org\/11\/10630\/jdm10630.pdf\">pictographs<\/a> and, as we learned from an email from Brian Zikmund-Fisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconarray.com\/\">icon arrays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Brian puts it<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/iconarray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iconarray.com<\/a> is a free online tool that enables anyone to create icon array risk graphics (sometimes called pictographs), download the images, or even embed the graphics in web pages just the way you can embed YouTube videos.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, see my blog post at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.risksense.org\/2012\/10\/25\/announcing-iconarray-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Risksense.org<\/a>\u00a0or just visit the site directly at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iconarray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iconarray.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current demonstration version is sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umriskcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Michigan Risk Science Center<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UM Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a glimpse at the user interface:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/iconarray-screenshot-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/iconarray-screenshot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"iconarray-screenshot-300x225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written before about using information grids when communicating risks to the general public. 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