This entry won first place in the InfoVis 2004 Contest.
Ke, Weimao, Börner, Katy and Viswanath, Lalitha. (2004). Analysis and Visualization of the IV 2004 Contest Dataset. Poster Compendium, IEEE Information Visualization Conference, pp. 49-50, 2004.
Summary
The presented work aims to identify major papers and their interrelations, topic trends over time, as well as major authors and their evolving co-authorship networks in the IV Contest 2004 data set. Paper-citation, co-citation, word co-occurrence, burst analysis and co-author analysis were used to analyze the data set. The results are visually presented as graphs, static Pajek [1] visualizations and interactive network layouts.
Weimao Ke, a SLIS MIS student, and Lalitha Viswanath, a master's student in Bioinformatics, write: "This year is the 10th anniversary of the InfoVis Conference, organised by IEEE, the world's leading technical and professional society, serving the public interest and members inelectrical, electronics, computer, information & othertechnologies.
"The InfoVis contest is a part of the conference. As a part of this contest, we analysed data of papers in InfoVis over a 30-year (1974-2004) period. Our visualizations best depicted the major topics and authors in the field. It also provided an excellent snapshot into the evolution of InfoVis research. Collaborations amongst major names in the field, such as Stuart Card (Xerox-PARC), George Roberston(Microsoft), etc were especially highlighted using out technique. Seminal papers, as indicated by our analysis, provided an intuitive understanding into the evolution of the research.
"Stuart Card, the keynote speaker of the InfoVis conference, used our dynamic visualization of co-author evolution as an example to illustrate 'how information visualization makes sense.' and be used in diverse areas."
More information on the project is available at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Elviswana/InfoVis/iv2004.htm
Posted November 15, 2004