{"id":266,"date":"2007-03-02T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:30","slug":"map-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/map-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I stumbled upon this amazing work by Kevin Boyack, Dick Klavans and <a href=\"http:\/\/didi.com\/brad\/\">Bradford Paley<\/a>. Those of you who know me also know that I love maps. Even though I have to admit that they may sometimes be more confusing than clarifying. As I am used to deal with paradigms, theories, papers and authors I really like this work. For others who don&#8217;t it might be only a beautiful picture without any meaning, and for some a piece of art. The image considers merely quantitative relations. Even though, a high power of connectivity says a lot about the currents of scientific discourses.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/map_of_science_visualization.html\">&#8220;Map of Science&#8221;<\/a> is constructed by<br \/> sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots) into<br \/> 776 different scientific paradigms (red circular nodes) based on how<br \/> often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links<br \/> (curved lines) were made between the paradigms that shared common<br \/> members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer<br \/> one another when a physical simulation had every paradigm repel every<br \/> other: thus the layout derives directly from the data. Larger paradigms<br \/> have more papers. Labels list common words unique to each paradigm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/map_of_science.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Map_of_science\" alt=\"Map_of_science\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/map_of_science.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/map_of_science_2_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Map_of_science_2_2\" alt=\"Map_of_science_2_2\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/map_of_science_2_2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"460\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/map_of_science_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Map_of_science_3\" alt=\"Map_of_science_3\" src=\"http:\/\/biest-blog.typepad.com\/biest_blog\/images\/map_of_science_3.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful and interesting image that relates paradigms, papers and their authors with each other. It is a quantitative approach of interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}