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 >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 > > ============================================================ > 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
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