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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.

Data Science / Knowledge Engineering / Research Analytics · #data-science #open-data #owl #research #science #taxonomy

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.

Data Science · #dashboard #information-architecture #visualization

Bringing quotations back to life

There's a new section on this site that allows to navigate quotations: quotes.michelepasin.org.

Data Science · #information-architecture #navigation #quote #visualization

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.

Data Science · #dashboard #visualization

Three things I like about Looker

Looker is a business intelligence and data visualization tool that was recently acquired by Google.

Data Science · #dashboard #visualization

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.

Data Science · #graph #jupyter #python #visualization

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.

Data Science / TechLife · #jupyter

Calculating Industry Collaborations via GRID

A new tutorial demonstrating how to extract and visualize data about industry collaborations by combining Dimensions data with GRID.

Data Science / Research Analytics · #dimensions #research-analytics #tutorial #visualization

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.

Data Science / Research Analytics / TechLife · #api #dimensions #python #research-analytics #terminal

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.

Data Science · #jupyter #social-web

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.

Data Science / Knowledge Engineering / Research Analytics · #data-science #graph #linked-data #nature #rdf #scigraph #search #visualization

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.

Data Science / Research Analytics · #d3 #nature #publishing #visualization

Italian public spending data: a review

The Italian government recently announced a new portal containing data on public spending: http://soldipubblici.gov.it.

Data Science · #italy #open-data #politics

How to visualize a big taxonomy within a single webpage?

Here are a couple more experiments aimed at visually representing a large taxonomy.

Data Science · #taxonomy #visualization

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.

Data Science · #d3 #javascript #taxonomy #tree #visualization

Infographics Course, Week 2

Here are the materials related to the second week of the Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization online course.

Data Science · #visualization

Infographics Course, Week 1

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.

Data Science · #visualization