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 > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org "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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