The Mental Munition Factory: A breakthrough in data visualization,

[Tom Johnson]

This may be of interest to some of us....

Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced a new system to help researchers make sense of stores of scientific papers, and potentially find the “next big thing.”

The Action Science Explorer, or ASE, developed jointly by University of Michigan and University of Maryland faculty, takes a difficult cognitive task -- backtracking through paper citations to identify a breakthrough -- and “offloads” it to the much easier task of perceiving density in network visualizations. In other words, it takes mounds of difficult to digest research, and uses social network analysis techniques and graphing to make the information immediately recognizable.
http://www.mentalmunition.com/2011/12/breakthrough-in-data-visualization-what.html

-tj


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[Pamela McCorduck]

Oh, this is a nice one!

On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

This may be of interest to some of us....

Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced a new system to help researchers make sense of stores of scientific papers, and potentially find the “next big thing.”

The Action Science Explorer, or ASE, developed jointly by University of Michigan and University of Maryland faculty, takes a difficult cognitive task -- backtracking through paper citations to identify a breakthrough -- and “offloads” it to the much easier task of perceiving density in network visualizations. In other words, it takes mounds of difficult to digest research, and uses social network analysis techniques and graphing to make the information immediately recognizable.
http://www.mentalmunition.com/2011/12/breakthrough-in-data-visualization-what.html

-tj

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"Nor can that observer know how the complexity of life shines with unfathomable beauty or how the difficulty of expressing that experience becomes overwhelming."

Melissa Zink

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[Miles Parker]

This is very close to what the commercial app that I've been working on does...except Butterflyzer is targeted toward general users and web pages.

http://butterflyzer.com

On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:

Oh, this is a nice one!

On Dec 19, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

This may be of interest to some of us....

Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced a new system to help researchers make sense of stores of scientific papers, and potentially find the “next big thing.”

The Action Science Explorer, or ASE, developed jointly by University of Michigan and University of Maryland faculty, takes a difficult cognitive task -- backtracking through paper citations to identify a breakthrough -- and “offloads” it to the much easier task of perceiving density in network visualizations. In other words, it takes mounds of difficult to digest research, and uses social network analysis techniques and graphing to make the information immediately recognizable.
http://www.mentalmunition.com/2011/12/breakthrough-in-data-visualization-what.html

-tj

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"Nor can that observer know how the complexity of life shines with unfathomable beauty or how the difficulty of expressing that experience becomes overwhelming."

Melissa Zink

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[Owen Densmore]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Miles Parker <[hidden email]> wrote:

This is very close to what the commercial app that I've been working on does...except Butterflyzer is targeted toward general users and web pages.

http://butterflyzer.com

Could you say more?  I liked the page saying:

Butterflyzer is not just a new software product, but an entirely new category of software. We're calling it a "Content Intelligence Environment". Butterflyzer is an integrated desktop application for exploring, collecting, cataloging and visualizing social media and related events. It shares features with Browsers, media clients, and content management tools, but offers much more. It provides powerful analysis and curating capabilities like expensive web-based service providers, but we don't pretend to give you all the answers...we don't even tell you what questions to ask.

It is not a web-app, right? .. but is instead a desktop app?  Why did you decide on that approach?  I can see that, even as cool as HTML5/CSS3/Javascript are, you might have good reasons for avoiding the browser.

   -- Owen

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