Some Grand Traditions Scholarly and professional communications Elucidating underlying relationships Visual metaphors to enhance understanding

Data Visualization Mining new ground A return to old themes

Scholarly and Professional Communications Players ( people & institutions ) Topics Works –Journals –Authors ( oeuvres ) –Documents Bibliographic elements Content-bearing or concept-symbols

Choice of Elements to Study Authors, Title words Journal / source Institutions / affiliations Subject augmenting assignments Other content-bearing text words Citations, Acknowledgements Stopwords

Neglected Islands of Analysis: Visualizing Stopwords in Visualizing Stopwords in ASIST Conference Papers SIG-CON 2004 ASIST Annual Conference Providence, RI - November 16, 2004 Ted Morris, Kent State University School of Library and Information Science

Domain of Study Titles of ASIST 2004 Annual Conference presentations –Drawn from Preliminary Program Locations of authors’ institutions –Explicitly stated or inferred –Googled

Results 1329 “words” 378 “stopword” occurrences 39 “stopwords” –Variously distributed as Conjunctions Prepositions Articles “Multipurpose” (e.g., adverb + preposition)

and65 of64 the61 a31 in31 for25 an17 to14 on11 across4 from4 new4 as5 at5 with5 more3 what3 between2 how2 Texas2 their2 by, forever, I, inside, now, out, past, still, than, that, they, through, together, we, when, why, within, within, you 1 ASIST 2004 Presentation Stopword Distribution

Results Discussion And65 Of64 With5 Why1 How2 For25 Why1

Results Discussion 2 In31 Inside1 Within1 Out1 Outside0 The61 That 1 68 A31 An17 48

Results Discussions 3 Across4 Between2 Out1 Through 1 8 New4 Forever1 Now1 Past1 Still1 When 1 9

Results Discussions 4 More3 Than1 Their2 We1 They1 Who0 Our0

ASIST 2004 Presentation Institutional Location Distribution Canada*20 Denmark7 Sweden7 Australia6 Turkey6 Finland4 England3 Korea3 Netherlands3 Scotland3 Taiwan3 Belgium2 China2 France2 Israel2 Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, México, Norway, Russia, Switzerland1 *Ontario13 Nova Scotia4 Quebec3

ASIST 2004 Presentation Institutional Location Distribution Texas35 New York22 Pennsylvania18 New Jersey17 North Carolina16 Maryland15 Indiana14 Florida13 Massachusetts13 Tennessee13 Washington13 Michigan12 Illinois11 Wisconsin10 California8 Hawaii7 New Mexico4 Ohio4 Washington DC4 Georgia3 Louisiana3 Missouri3 Oklahoma3 Virginia3 Arizona2 Connecticut2 Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina1

U.S Electoral College Vote Distribution Bush Kerry

ASIST 2004 Presenter Affiliations by Red/Blue State

Further Research Co-occurrence analysis of stopwords Correlation of title length to stopword frequency Correlation of punctuation frequency to stopword frequency Co-occurrence of -- punctuation??!!Co-occurrence of -- punctuation??!!