The Social Sciences Department of the J.W. Goethe Univsersity Frankfurt sent out a press release on idw about a nice piece of work by Christian Stegbauer, a professor of social science at this department.
In his work, Stegbauer analysed the network of Wikipedia authors and their contributions to Wikipedia topic discussions on philosophy. The network analysis - or graph analysis - showed the social network of Wikipedia authors, how they interact and how they are connected through common topics.
In their graph analysis Stegbauer et al. used an approach very similar to TaxonRank. Of course, the same questions that Stegbauer asked about Wikipedia author networks could also be applied to taxonomists.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Analysis of Author Networks in Wikipedia
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Graph layout experiments with Jsviz
Yesterday I found jsviz, a javascript based tree and graph layout classes at http://www.jsviz.org .
While I am quite happy to have the prefuse Java plug-in to display the complex relationships between taxa I always wished to have something php or js based because the prefuse applet is loading quite slow.
The first experiments with jsviz are quite promising! I begun to simply modify the examples from the jsviz blog pages and fed them with XML files generated by TaxonConcept. The results are very impressing, for example the snowflake graph for Archeoglobigerina cretacea just looks beautiful: http://taxonconcept.stratigraphy.net/taxon_jsviz.php?taxid=1861
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