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A toxic site a day

Type: Map
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Description: An online data visualization application that analyzes 1 toxic site per day that is currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S....
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Aureka / mapping patent (ThemeScape)

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Description: One of the key tools in Aureka is a text-mining module called ThemeScape. Aurigin brought this out to attract business customers by helping...
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Climate map

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Description: London as it might look like in 2071. The city, they suggest, will be defined by "heat, dust, and water piped in from Scotland." To...
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Eigenfactor™ Metrics

Visualizing information flow in science
Type: Web-tool
Status: Public
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Description:  Interactive visualizations based on the Eigenfactor™ Metrics and hierarchical clustering to explore emerging patterns in...
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Global map of science / Leydersdorff

Based on the ISI Subject Categories
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Description: A Global Map of Science Based on the ISI Subject Categories map http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/map06/index.htm The ISI subject...
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High-Resolution Maps of Science

Type: Map
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Description:  Many intricate maps of science have lately been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific activity. However, most...
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Knowledge Cartography

Type: Website
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Description:  Knowledge Cartography is part of a PhD research on the visual representation of knowledge. The aim of the research is to extend the...
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Knowledge Cartography

Type: Website
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Description:  Knowledge Cartography is part of a PhD research on the visual representation of knowledge. The aim of the research is to extend the...
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Map of future Forces Affecting Education (duplicate)

Type: Map
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Description: This is a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. The...
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Map of science - Eigenvector.org

Ranking and mapping scientific knowledge
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Description: Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of...
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Mapping Complex Diseases

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Description: Anyone who is a true advocate of information visualization will be fascinated by this project. Using health records from the Columbia University...
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Mapping huge collection of data

(MLB Baseball statistics)
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Description: A huge collection of data visualizations aiming to explore Major League Baseball teams' game scores going all the way back to 1814. Scores from...
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My evidence

Why do you believe what you believe?
Type: Web-tool
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Description: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? examines that process, revealing the ways in which ideas and information become knowledge and...
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Obesity System Influence diagram

Type: Map
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Description:  Developed for the Foresight Tackling Obesities project, this causal loop map was designed to provide systemic insight into the multiplicity...
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Semantic Graphs of French Intellectual Property Rights

Type: Map
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Description: These work-in-progress maps are part of a study produced in the spring of 2008 for economist Yann Moulier-Boutang, law professor at the French...
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The product space and the wealth of nations

Type: Map
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Description: The concept of proximity formalizes the intuitive idea that the ability of a country to produce a product depends on its ability to produce other...
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The spread of obesity

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Description: Description & still images:  http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370 The prevalence of obesity has increased from 23% to...
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The strengh of the Nation (Maps of Science)

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Description: In this impressive poster developed by Dick Klavans and Bradford Paley, with the help of Kevin Boyack and ISI data, one can see the variations in...
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Web science

Cover for ACM's Communications magazine
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Description:  From VC : Generative artist Marius Watz has contributed to the July'08 edition of ACM's Communications magazine with a...
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