map of science

a beautiful & highly sophisticated ‘Map of Science’, constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots) into 776 different scientific paradigms (red circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. links (curved lines) were made between the paradigms that shared common members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation had every paradigm repel every other: thus the layout derives directly from the data. larger paradigms have more papers. labels list common words unique to each paradigm.
this image was recently published in Nature.
see also Royal Society academic papers visualization & scientific literature citation trends network diagram.
[link: didi.com & didi.com (detailed JPEG image)]
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(Via information aesthetics.)
Table of contents for Visualisation
- Aaron Koblin’s visualizations of commercial air traffic
- Google News Visualizations
- 100 Reasons You Should Be Interested in, Want to Share, and Get Excited About Data
- interactive Sankey diagrams
- map of science
- world history timeline poster
- open-source spying
- image search result tracer
- moodjam mood visualization
- shop opening hours
- interpretation vs. representation
- A Blog/Blogject [my blog dreams]
- web 2 dna
- bio & emotion mapping
- DOM mapping / websites as graph
- collision detection: Using statistics to beat traffic
- turntablism & visualization, v-scratch
- A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
- Field Works: landscape + activity visualizations
- Blogviz
- [Research] Blogposts visualization: semantic distance and cluster
- visualization of density in architecture
- Wikipedia heals in 5 minutes
