Data visualization as a library service? Examples from Chalmers Library.

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

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

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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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