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Literature Hacking by ttfnrobNovember 14, 2012June 10, 2013

Visualising Collaboration in Astronomy

Over on this link, you’ll find a data-driven document (D3 FTW!) showing collaboration between the most authorship-intensive institutions in astronomy. The document is a chord diagram showing the strength of collaboration between research centres, based on co-authorship of papers. I’ve included some screenshots here to give you the idea – the one above is for worldwide institutions […]

Literature Hacking by ttfnrobJuly 27, 2012June 5, 2013

More Astronomy Data Mining: It’s Word-Matrix Time!

I have been exploring the terms used in the astronomical literature (see previous post), and have turned my attention to terms that seem to correlate with each other in astronomy publications. I thought it would at least be interesting to see how often one word is mention alongside another. To do this I take terms […]