1. Chaomei Chen, Drexel University
ASIS&T Panel: Search Results Visualization Collective Intelligence & Holistic Sense Making
Chaomei Chen, Drexel University
November 6, Austin, TX

2.  Parts > Whole

3. Collective Intelligence An emergent property of a society, a community, an invisible college, …

4. Collective Intelligence emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals, an intelligence that seemingly has a mind of its own.

7. Less is More!

8. 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?

9. 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

10. Q3: Turning point? Q4: Transition path?
Q2: Previous hot topic?
Q3: Turning point?
Q4: Transition path?
Q1: Current hot topic?

11. 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

13. Geospatial patterns of terrorist events

14. Geospatial patterns of relevant research

15. 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.

16. Citers to Galea et al. (2002)

17. Differentiating Conflicting Views

19. Amazon Customer Reviews 1,738 positive reviews (=4, 5) 918 negative reviews (=1, 2)

20. Positive Reviews
Negative Reviews

22. What does really good book mean exactly?

23. A negative orientation of good thriller writing

24. Selecting the Most Differentiating Terms Classification accuracy based on 10-fold cross-validation: C4.5 << NaiveBayes << SVM

25. The Da Vinci Code (Amazon Sales Rank: #7)
3,068 Customer
Reviews

26. The Tipping Point (Amazon Sales Rank: #12)
596 Customer
Reviews

27. Video iPod (accuracy 91.49%)
686 Customer
Reviews
Video iPod (accuracy 91.49%)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12 in Electronics

28. Emergent themes over time on terrorism (2001-2005) A decision tree derived from 3,944 abstracts
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29. Retrieval vs. Visual Analytics
Recall
Discrete Search
Part
Formal …
Visual Analytics
Recognition
Continuous Foraging
Whole
Intuitive …
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