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provides access to a comprehehsive set of software packages easing the exploration, modification, comparison, and extension of data mining and information visualization algorithms. Diverse software packages were bundled into learning modules. Access to a large-scale data repository, extensive compute resources, and a growing set of references are provided as well. It is our hope that the community will adopt this resource to foster Information Visualization education and research.

Intricate maps of science have been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific activity. However, most scientific publications are now accessed online. Scholarly web portals record detailed log data at a scale that exceeds the num

Project from 2012, collaboration of UKOLN, University of Bath and Microsoft Research "to assist institutions, research funders and researchers in growing the capability of their communities to perform data intensive research "

Excerpt: "will involve the use of an ecosystem of interacting web-based resources, including the infrastructure provided by the Virtual Observatory, data provisioning services from Astronomy archives, a variety of analysis services such as Astrometry.net, notification services such as skyalert.org, and visualization services such as CDS's Aladin and Microsoft's WorldWideTelescope."

Excerpt; "In contrast to confirmatory analysis, which involves testing preconceived hypothesis, exploratory data analysis involves a broad investigation, a key component of which may be visual display. ... Today, there is tremendous potential for computational biologists, bioinformaticians, and related software developers to shape and direct scientific discovery by designing data visualization tools that facilitate exploratory analysis and fuel the cycle of ideas and experiments that gets refined into well-formed hypotheses, robust analyses, and confident results.""

From the abstract: ", we propose a social framework based on crowdsourced annotations of scholars, designed to keep up with the rapidly evolving disciplinary and interdisciplinary landscape. We describe a system called Scholarometer, which provides a service to scholars by computing citation-based impact measures. This creates an incentive for users to provide disciplinary annotations of authors, which in turn can be used to compute disciplinary metrics. We first present the system architecture and several heuristics to deal with noisy bibliographic and annotation data. We report on data sharing and interactive visualization services enabled by Scholarometer. Usage statistics, illustrating the data collected and shared through the framework, suggest that the proposed crowdsourcing approach can be successful. Secondly, we illustrate how the disciplinary bibliometric indicators elicited by Scholarometer allow us to implement for the first time a universal impact measure proposed in the literature. Our evaluation suggests that this metric provides an effective means for comparing scholarly impact across disciplinary boundaries."

"a novel PDF reader that semantically integrates visualization and data-analysis tools with published research articles." A pilot project with Biochemical Journal is described.

Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship-Related Questions (DID-ARQ) project

Conference to be held at April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is November 12, 2012. Including the following topics: libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives new publics, movements going global and communities of the future manifestos for the next generation new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games ways of working - methodologies, code, communities, funding future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need visualization and data-driven futures mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures crowdsourcing (and/in) the future teleologies and their discontents new and imagined creative practices