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Dear all,
several of you expressed interest in attending a “Sci2 Tool: A Tool for
Science of Science Research and Practice" Tutorial in Europe. Please
find below the invitation to join us on April 13, 2012 at OECD in Paris,
France.
Registration via http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NPLF97Q is mandatory but
free.
Best regards from Leiden,
k
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*“Sci2 Tool: A Tool for Science of Science Research and Practice" Tutorial
*
*Instructor:*Dr. Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information
Science, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
(http://cns.iu.edu <http://cns.iu.edu/>), SLIS, Indiana University
*Time/Date: *10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30-3:30pm on Friday April 13, 2012**
*Place: *OECD CC Auditorium, OECD, 2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex
16, France. www.oecd.org/conferencecentre
<http://www.oecd.org/conferencecentre>
*Format:*Lecture and “hands-on” training. Please bring your laptop.
*Audience:*This tutorial is designed for researchers, practitioners,
program staff from federal agencies interested to use advanced data
mining algorithms and visualizations in their daily work. They will use
the Science of Science (Sci2) tool to run temporal, geospatial, topical,
and network analysis and visualization workflows designed to increase
our understanding of science and technology developments.
*Cost: * Free. Registration via
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NPLF97Q required by April 6, 2012. Please
contact Samantha Hale ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
if you do receive a confirmation and tutorial details by April 10, 2012.
*Abstract:
*The Science of Science Tool (Sci^2 ) (http://sci2.cns.iu.edu
<http://sci2.cns.iu.edu/>) was designed for researchers and
practitioners interested to study and understand the structure and
dynamics of science. Today, it is used by major federal agencies in the
U.S. including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes
of Health, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration but also by researchers from more than 40
countries and from many different areas of research.
Sci2 is a standalone desktop application that installs and runs on
Windows, Linux x86 and Mac OSX and supports:
* Reading and writing of 20 major file formats (e.g., ISI, Scopus,
bibtex, nsf, EndNote, CSV, Pajek .net, XGMML, GraphML),
* Easy access to more than 180 algorithms for the temporal,
geospatial, topical, and network analysis and visualization of
scholarly datasets at the micro (individual), meso (local), and
macro (global) levels, and
* Professional visualization of analysis results by means of
large-format charts and maps.
The first hour of the tutorial provides a basic introduction of the
tool. Remaining time will be spent discussing sample workflows featured
in the Sci2 Tutorial at (http://sci2.wiki.cns.iu.edu) and new
functionality such as the Yahoo! geocoder, network clustering and
backbone identification algorithms, and the analysis and visualization
of evolving networks.
*Reference:
*Börner, Katy. (2010). /Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know./ The
MIT Press. (http://scimaps.org/atlas)
*Agenda:*
10:30am Welcome and Overview of Tutorial and Attendees
10:45am Plug-and-Play Macroscopes, OSGi/CIShell Powered Tools
11:00am Sci2 Tool Basics
Download and run the Sci2 Tool
Load, analyze, and visualize family and business networks
Studying four major network science researchers
- Load and clean a dataset; process raw data into networks
- Find basic statistics and run various algorithms over the network
- Visualize the network using different layouts
/12:30pm Lunch Break/
1:30pm Sci2 Tool Novel Functionality
- Yahoo! geocoder
- Evolving collaboration networks
- R-Bridge
3:00pm Outlook and Q&A
/3:30pm Adjourn
/
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*KATY BÖRNER*is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at
the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Professor at the
School of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Professor at the Department
of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Core Faculty of
Cognitive Science, Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute,
Fellow of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, Member of
the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, and Founding Director of the
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (http://cns.iu.edu) at
Indiana University.She is a curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping
Science exhibit (http://scimaps.org). Her research focuses on the
development of data analysis and visualization techniques for
information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly
interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific
disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity; and the
development of cyberinfrastructures for large scale scientific
collaboration and computation.She is the co-editor of the Springer books
‘Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries’ (2003) and ‘Modeling Science
Dynamics’ (2012) and of a special issue of PNAS on ‘Mapping Knowledge
Domains’ (2004).Her book ‘Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know’ by
MIT Press was published in 2010. She holds a MS in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig, 1991 and a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, 1997.
Her home page is at http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~katy
<http://info.slis.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty>.
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Katy Borner
Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science
Director, CI for Network Science Center,http://cns.iu.edu
Curator, Mapping Science exhibit,http://scimaps.org
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166
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