Sep
Unpacking OpenAlex topics classification
In this post I have taken a closer look at the classification of scientific disciplines in OpenAlex, a recently developed database of scientific works.
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2024
2023
Jul
Designing great dashboards: a slidedeck
What makes a dashboard great? Here is a slide deck (gslides )that consolidates several useful ideas I've ran into in the past.
2022
Jul
Bringing quotations back to life
There's a new section on this site that allows to navigate quotations: quotes.michelepasin.org.
Apr
Three things I do *not* like about Looker
Following up on my previous 3 things I like about Looker , here are instead the top three things that I really wish were different about this piece of software.
Mar
Three things I like about Looker
Looker is a business intelligence and data visualization tool that was recently acquired by Google.
2020
Aug
More Jupyter notebooks: pyvis and networkx
Lately I've been spending more time creating Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate how to use the Dimensions API for research analytics.
Jan
Getting to grips with Google Colab
I've been using Google Colab on a regular basis during the last few months, as I was curious to see whether I could make the switch to it from a more traditional Jupyter/JupyterLab environment.
Jan
Calculating Industry Collaborations via GRID
A new tutorial demonstrating how to extract and visualize data about industry collaborations by combining Dimensions data with GRID.
2019
May
Introducing DimCli: a Python CLI for the Dimensions API
For the last couple of months I've been working on a new open source Python project called DimCli.
May
Running interactive Jupyter demos with mybinder.org
The online tool mybinder.org allows you to turn a Git repository into a collection of interactive notebooks with one click.
2017
Apr
Exploring SciGraph data using JSON-LD, Elastic Search and Kibana
Hello there data lovers! In this post you can find some information on how to download and make some sense of the scholarly dataset recently made available by the Springer Nature SciGraph project, by using the freely available Elasticsearch suite of software.
2015
Jun
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.
2014
Dec
Italian public spending data: a review
The Italian government recently announced a new portal containing data on public spending: http://soldipubblici.gov.it.
Aug
How to visualize a big taxonomy within a single webpage?
Here are a couple more experiments aimed at visually representing a large taxonomy.
2013
Jun
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.
2012
Nov
Here are the materials related to the second week of the Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization online course.
Nov
This is a short summary of the activities in week 1 of the Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization massive online course offered by the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas.
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