- ARCHIVE / TAG ARCHIVE
- Nature.com Subjects Stream Graph
The nature.com subjects stream graph displays the distribution of content across the subject areas covered by the nature.com portal. This is an experimental interactive visualisation based on a freely available dataset from the nature.com linked data platform, which I’ve been working on in the last few months. The main visualization provides an overview of selected […]
- Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?
Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge? Many would say yes. Others are still quite skeptical, or maybe just cautious about it. What seems to be the case though – and this is what this post is about – is that wikipedians are increasingly including references to scientific literature, and when they do it […]
- A sneak peek at Nature.com articles’ archive
We’re getting closer to releasing the full set of metadata covering over one million articles published by Nature Publishing Group since 1845. So here’s a sneak peek at this dataset, in the form of a simple d3.js visual summary of what soon will be available to download and reuse. In the last months I’ve been […]
- Messing around wih D3.js and hierarchical data
These days there are a lot of browser-oriented visualization toolkits, such d3.js or jit.js. They’re great and easy to use, but how much do they scale when used with medium-large or very large datasets? The subject ontology is a quite large (~2500 entities) taxonomical classification developed at Nature Publishing Group in order to classify scientific […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
