Analyzing Trends in Science & Technology Innovation Ben Shneiderman, Ping Wang, Yan Qu & Cody Dunne {pwang, yanqu, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
The STICK Project NSF SciSIP Program - Science of Science & Innovation Policy Goal: Scientific approach to science policy The STICK Project - Science & Technology Innovation Concept Knowledge-base Goal: Monitoring, Understanding, and Advancing the (R)Evolution of Science & Technology Innovations
The STICK Project Long-term objectives Database of IT, biotech & nanotech innovations Visual analytic tools for monitoring & sensemaking Theories of innovation trajectories Near-term objectives Ontology for innovations & people Search & cleaning tools Case studies Cloud computing Tree visualizations: treemaps, cone trees & hyperbolic trees
Early Work: Fashions in IT Innovations
Innovation Trajectories: Web Services Publications R&D Investment Sales Sources: LexisNexis for publications; Gartner for R&D investment; IDC for Application Sales
STICK: Ontology Design
STICK: Ontology Design: Time Time
Case Study: Cloud computing
Case Study: Tree Visualizations Problem: Traditional 2D node-link diagrams become too large Solutions: Treemaps: Nested Rectangles Cone Trees: 3D Interactive Animations Hyperbolic Trees: Focus + Context Measures: Papers, articles, patents, citations,… Press releases, blog posts, tweets,… Users, downloads, sales,…
Treemap: Nested Rectangles (Shneiderman, ACM Trans. on Graphics, 1992; Johnson & Shneiderman, IEEE 1991)
Smartmoney.com MarketMap: Steep fall Feb 27, 2007, with one exception smartmoney.com/marketmap
newsmap.jp Treemap: Newsmap (Marcos Weskamp)
Treemap: Supply Chain
Treemap: Spotfire Bond Portfolio Analysis
Treemap: NY Times – Car&Truck Sales
Cone tree: 3D Interactive Animations Interactive 3D animated user interfaces (Robertson, Card & Mackinlay, ACM CHI 1991 & CACM 1993)
Hyperbolic Trees: Focus & Context (Lamping & Rao, ACM UIST1994 & CHI 1995)
Case Study: Tree Visualization Impact TM=Treemaps CT=Cone Trees HT=Hyperbolic Trees Trade Press Articles Academic Papers Patents
Case Study: Tree Visualization Citations TM=Treemaps CT=Cone Trees HT=Hyperbolic Trees Academic Papers Patents
Take Away Messages Thanks to: National Science Foundation grant SBE and Grad student Puneet Sharma terpconnect.umd.edu/~pwang/STICK/ Studying innovation trends will be accelerated by Appropriate ontologies Better search & data cleaning tools Causal theories Multiple measures & determinants of success Guidance to innovators, policy analysts, venture capitalists & research managers
STICK Framework