Information visualization services in a library? A public health case study

Hayes, Barrie E.; Hong, Yi; Villaveces, Andrés

doi:10.1002/bult.2009.1720350505

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“…The Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina built a visualization infrastructure and created an information visualization service in their Collaboration Center services to support epidemiological data studies. 17 University of Houston (UH) librarians collaborated with faculty in the School of Nursing and the Department of Psychological Health and Learning Sciences to develop data visualization instructional sessions for classes in two different health degree programs. The UH library also used data dashboards and Tableau to provide students with hands-on experience in data visualization.…”

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A system for generating research impact visualizations over medical research groups

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2018

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

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Universities routinely employ research impact assessment mechanisms and tools for grant proposals, resource allocation decisions, and funding budget requests. These impact metrics are often displayed in interactive visualizations and dashboard displays. There is a growing trend for libraries to be cooperatively involved in the gathering and provision of research intelligence and impact data. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has developed a system for generating research impact visualizations for research groups within the newly established Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Using the Elsevier Scopus database Applications Programming Interface, we have created a series of scripts to extract article, conference paper, and book chapter metadata and build supporting database tables. From the database, a dashboard visualization of scaled and clickable display bubbles and publication number labels is generated for each individual researcher. The interactive visualization can retrieve articles and papers published over the last five years, citation information (as cited by number) for each researcher, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health grant matches, and a visualization of the coauthored papers for each author within the cohort. These activities enhance the role of the library in supporting knowledge management and scholarly communication and in fostering campus partnerships and collaborations.

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A system for generating research impact visualizations over medical research groups

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2018

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

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“…It seems the disparities in the separate trends toward smaller electronic devices and the level of detail in science maps may need to be addressed before the potential of visual documentation can be fully realized. Cutting edge technologies for visual information, such as the equipment owned by the Renaissance Computing Institute in North Carolina and described by Hayes, Yi, and Villaveces (2009), begin to address the computing needs that may be crucial for developing and using effective information visualization applications.…”

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