Archive for the ‘Visualization’ Category

September 22, 2010 15

ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact

By in Announcements, Collaboration, Reference management, Statistics, Visualization, Web 2.0

Tweet Readers of this blog are not new to my ramblings on soft peer review, social metrics and post-publication impact measures: can we measure the impact of scientific research based on usage data from collaborative annotation systems, social bookmarking services and social media? should we expect major discrepancies between citation-based and readership-based impact measures? are [...]

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November 20, 2009 3

Buzzwords: Rise and fall of cold fusion and feminism

By in Visualization

Tweet A glimpse at the hottest topics in scholarly literature according to PhdComics. [via FlowingData]

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September 16, 2009 0

Who does Google think you are?

By in e-Science, Search, Visualization

Tweet One of the themes we’ve been discussing here is the idea that prestige and attention are the main currencies of academia. So it only makes sense that you want your online presence to be an accessible and positive reflection of your work and, at the very least, you want to be distinguishable from all [...]

April 4, 2008 4

The wisdom of crowds or what this blog is about

By in Blog, Visualization, Web 2.0

Tweet Following up on Jose’s musings on good and bad keywords for a productivity blog, I came across an interesting tool to visualize the evolution over time of aggregated social bookmarking tags for popular websites. It is actually a pretty old project called Cloudalicious created a few years ago by Terrell Russell (of ClaimID fame). [...]

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January 21, 2008 9

Hairy and hairier: Visualizing unresponded email in your mailbox

By in Software, Time management, Visualization

Tweet According to a study by research firm Basex recently covered by the New York Times, information overload will be the Problem of the Year in 2008, costing US companies up to $650 billion a year. The figure is supposed to be an estimate of the cost of unnecessary interruptions in terms of “decreased productivity [...]

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