Credit: Courtesy of Laurence Clarfeld, University of Vermont
In this visualization of a serious illness conversation, each vertical bar represents a speaker turn, and the height of each bar is proportional to the length of the turn, with patient turns in red and clinician turns in blue. The alternating short-long pattern in turn length that dominates these conversations is apparent, and CODYM analysis helps us understand this and other patterns, revealing insights about information flow in conversation.