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A Brand New Milky Way Project

Research by ttfnrobDecember 12, 2013

Explore Planck Data in Chromoscope

News by ttfnrobMarch 21, 2013June 6, 2013

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 ttfnrobNovember 14, 2012June 5, 2013

Mapping Collaboration in Astronomy

A couple of weeks ago I began to geocode the database of astronomical research I scraped from NASA ADS during .Astronomy 4. This database consists of all the published astronomical research in five major journals (almost 250,000 papers going back decades, from MNRAS, ApJ, AJ, A&A and PASP) up to July 2012. You can read […]

Literature Hacking by ttfnrobOctober 12, 2012June 5, 2013

Geocoding the Literature

I (or rather my computer) spent most of this morning geocoding the database of astronomical papers that I scraped from NASA ADS a while back. I’ve got about a quarter of a million papers, covering several of the major astronomical journals (MNRAS, ApJ, A&A, PASP and AJ) back to their first publications. There are 7 […]