Data visualization as a library service? Examples from Chalmers Library
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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”
• 2011-2012• ≥ 5 citations• 1352 journals• 6 clusters
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,47.506225,19.06482,"Budapest Univ Technol & Econ, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary",,6,,
country level maps Department of Energy and
Environment 2008-2013
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.”
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