Bad Design Is Bad for Your Health: Why Data Visualization Details Matter

Presentation Abstract by Jody Butts, Sr. User Experience Designer Given on August 11, 2017 at the UX Australia Conference in Sydney Full presentation audio and slides are available here: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/uxaustralia-2017/presentation/bad-design-is-bad-for-your-health-why-data-visualization-details-matter/ The proper design of data visualization details is imperative for accurate and actionable data visualizations and dashboards. In the health …

2^5 Coding Competition 2017: 32 Lines or Less

The Competition Part of Cerner’s engineering culture is to celebrate technology. This past fall, we had our annual celebration for Programmers’ Day. We celebrated the day with great food (taco bar and ice cream) and an evening of trivia. Topping off Programmers' Day with a taco bar and trivia night …

Announcing Bunsen: FHIR Data With Apache Spark

We’re excited to open source Bunsen, a library to make analyzing FHIR data with Apache Spark simple and scalable. Bunsen encodes FHIR resources directly into Apache Spark’s native data structures. This lets users leverage well-defined FHIR data models directly within Spark SQL. Here’s a simple query against a table of …

Celebrating World Usability Day at Cerner

World Usability Day is celebrated worldwide on the second Thursday in November every year. Across the globe, organizations host events and use this day to provide education on how to make products easier to use and simpler to access, as well as to celebrate progress in this pursuit. The World …