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Trends in Scientific Literature
Visualizing Patterns and Trends in Scientific Literature – What’s next? Chaomei Chen Many of us are interested in visualizing patterns and trends in scientific literature. It can be very exciting and revealing as well as challenging and frustrating. More often than not, a visualized ‘big picture’ of a scientific field invites more questions and more specific needs. Some may want to see more details; others may prefer a birds-eye view. There are quite a few unanswered questions. I’d like to line up a couple of them here. First of all, given any visualization of scientific literature, who would be able to understand what it is about? If there is such a thing as a typical viewer, what would be the viewer’s knowledge structure? The intended audience of the graphical message carried by the Pioneer spacecraft was aliens who would have competent knowledge of physics, at least as the way we understand it. If designers do not spell out their intent, where are the clues?
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Trends in Scientific Literature
Visualizing Patterns and Trends in Scientific Literature – What’s next? Chaomei Chen Many of us are interested in visualizing patterns and trends in scientific literature. It can be very exciting and revealing as well as challenging and frustrating. More often than not, a visualized ‘big picture’ of a scientific field invites more questions and more specific needs. Some may want to see more details; others may prefer a birds-eye view. There are quite a few unanswered questions. I’d like to line up a couple of them here. First of all, given any visualization of scientific literature, who would be able to understand what it is about? If there is such a thing as a typical viewer, what would be the viewer’s knowledge structure? The intended audience of the graphical message carried by the Pioneer spacecraft was aliens who would have competent knowledge of physics, at least as the way we understand it. If designers do not spell out their intent, where are the clues?
informationvisualization.typepad.com/sigvis/2005/02/visua...