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."
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