A Seminar and Interactive Session held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, December 10, 2009 helped to introduce Members of Congress and Congressional Staff to new approaches to information. SLIS professor Katy Börner was the speaker.
The event was hosted in partnership with ASTRA, The Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America and the Science-Engineering-Technology Working Group (SETWG).
The two maps included here were a part of the presentation, and the announcement advertising the event (excerpts below). The maps are part of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science collection.
Map 1: U.S. Vulnerabilities in Science
Map 2: Chemical R&D Powers the U.S. Innovation Engine
Announcement
Mapping Innovation for Congress:
Creating an Innovation Dashboard to Inform Policy Makers (PDF)
Excerpts:
Have you ever wondered what an "Innovation Dashboard" of your state or congressional district would reveal? Where would the "Pockets of Innovation" lie and what pathways do those innovations take to impact education, health, or profit? Where are the jobs or the innovative education programs? How would you use such a dashboard in your daily work?
This seminar series brings together R&D researchers with a strong background in data analysis and visualization and selected Members of Congress and Congressional Staff. The main goal is to collectively identify features and functionality of an "Innovation Dashboard" for Congress.
The first session in this series features Dr. Katy Börner of Indiana University. Dr. Börner will describe different approaches to R&D data analysis and visualization, discuss sample maps from the international Mapping Science exhibit (http://scimaps.org) and insights derived from them, as well as near-term developments in the mapping of R&D data. This presentation is followed by a structured but open discussion on desirable features and functionality for "State-Oriented R&D Fact Sheets" and "Innovation Dashboards" and how they would be used to understand, improve, and communicate State and Congressional District innovation metrics.
Posted December 15, 2009