Data visualization as a library service? Examples from Chalmers Library
Hi(story) William Playfair 1759 – 1823
‘[the king] at once understood the charts and was highly pleased. He said they spoke all languages and were clear and easily understood.’
Examples: Analyzing & illustrating publishing patterns Our repository: Chalmers Publication Library (CPL) Network analysis - and visualisation – Authors (co-authorship networks, citations networks) – Keywords (co-wordanalysis) – Organisations/departments (co-authorship networks) Geospatial visualisations – Co-authorship
Author Co-citation Analysis Road acoustics Top cited authors Links Size Centrality
“The journal cloud” ≥ 5 citations 1352 journals 6 clusters
Interactivity
The geography of Chalmers – collaboration across the globe
Visualizing research collaboration Publications 2012 (Chalmers/Onsala) Adress strings Data cleaning Frequency distribution ≥ 2 co-authored publications (393 organisations) Geocoding Google Maps/Google Earth W, , ,"Budapest Univ Technol & Econ, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary",,6,,
country level maps Department of Energy and Environment
Who has cited researcher x?
“Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs.”
“Raw is an open web app to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing D3.js library through a simple interface.”D3.js library
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