Chaomei Chen, Drexel University ASIS&T Panel: Search Results Visualization Collective Intelligence & Holistic Sense Making Chaomei Chen, Drexel University November 6, 2006. Austin, TX
Parts > Whole
Collective Intelligence An emergent property of a society, a community, an invisible college, …
Collective Intelligence emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals, an intelligence that seemingly has a mind of its own.
Less is More!
Making Sense of Collective Intelligence What are the hot topics in a subject area? How are these hot topics related? How do these topics evolve over time, space, and how do they spread across the structure of collective intelligence? How do we access the emergent insights?
Topic: Terrorism Time span: 1996-2003 Q1: Current hot topic? What is the most active topic in the area of TERRORISM RESEARCH? What was the previously predominant topic? What EVENT/WORK led to the shift of focus? What is such a transition path made of? Q2: Previous hot topic? Q3: Turning point? Q4: Transition path? before after
Q3: Turning point? Q4: Transition path? Q2: Previous hot topic? Q3: Turning point? Q4: Transition path? Q1: Current hot topic?
N=45 N=93 N=31 11 Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*epidemiology 9 Terrorism/*psychology 8 Disasters 27 Biological Warfare 17 Violence 14 Bioterrorism N=45 N=93 N=31 11 Explosions 7 Violence 4 Blast Injuries/*mortality
Geospatial patterns of terrorist events
Geospatial patterns of relevant research
The Impact of a Pivotal Point Galea, S. et al. (2002) How does the citations to this paper spread geographically? Note: You need to have Google Earth installed on your computer.
Citers to Galea et al. (2002)
Differentiating Conflicting Views
Amazon Customer Reviews 1,738 positive reviews (=4, 5) 918 negative reviews (=1, 2)
Positive Reviews Negative Reviews
What does really good book mean exactly?
A negative orientation of good thriller writing
Selecting the Most Differentiating Terms Classification accuracy based on 10-fold cross-validation: C4.5 << NaiveBayes << SVM
The Da Vinci Code (Amazon Sales Rank: #7) 3,068 Customer Reviews
The Tipping Point (Amazon Sales Rank: #12) 596 Customer Reviews
Video iPod (accuracy 91.49%) 686 Customer Reviews Video iPod (accuracy 91.49%) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12 in Electronics
Emergent themes over time on terrorism (2001-2005) A decision tree derived from 3,944 abstracts 2002 2003 2004 2005 Old New Old Old New New Old New Old New New Old New
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