misc.ience

Scientific collaboration between researchers – map

Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 20, 2013

• collaboration,
• data visualisation,
• data viz,
• design,
• map,
• network,
• Olivier H. Beauchesne,
• research

Following my last post, which talked about work which has been done ranking the excellence of scientific organisations around the world, there’s this: a map of scientific collaboration between researchers. Developed by Olivier H. Beauchesne, who makes really interesting data-visualising… Read more › … Read More

Mapping Scientific Excellence – ranking the world’s best scientific organisations

Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 08, 2013

• Bornmann,
• design,
• map,
• scientific excellence,
• spatial scientometrics

Introducing Mapping Scientific Excellence – a new, interactive web app/map which ranks scientific institutions around the world based on citations (more on that shortly). The app was designed by Lutz Bornmann and colleagues at Germany’s Max Planck Society, and looks… Read more › … Read More

If Ptolemy had been right, and the magical theory of relativity

Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 06, 2013

• astronomy,
• design,
• Presentation,
• prezi,
• ptolemy,
• Theory of relativity

Two excellent pieces of visual science communication today. The first is a visualisation of what our solar system would look like it Ptolemy had been right. As you no doubt remember, he’s the chap who posited that the _earth_ was… Read more › … Read More

Graphic: Magnitude 5+ earthquakes this year (in NZ)

Aimee Whitcroft • Jul 19, 2013

• #eqnz,
• design,
• earthquake,
• Geonet

I’ve just made my first ever data visualisation :) Spurred by this morning’s nasty bump near Wellington, and because I love me the learning of the new skills, I’ve made the graphic below. Using data I sucked down from geonet,… Read more › … Read More

Jawdropping (also ft ICT sector reports, fiscal calculators and Mongolia)

Aimee Whitcroft • Jul 16, 2013

• culture,
• fiscal calculator,
• fps,
• glass,
• high speed camera,
• ICT,
• ICT Report,
• Lemur Attack Force,
• MBIE,
• Mongol Rally,
• Mongolia,
• physics,
• Prince Rupert's Drop

Well, that was my reaction to this video, at any rate. Picked up off Twitter, from fellow Sciblogger Mr David Winter (@TheAtavism) himself*, it’s stunning high-speed camera work explaining the mad physics behind the Prince Rupert’s Drop. Don’t know what… Read more › … Read More

Software Carpentry Bootcamp – a delicious name for a delicious thing

Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 26, 2013

• bootcamp,
• culture,
• design,
• eresearch,
• eresearch symposium,
• escience,
• Ruby Girls,
• Ruby on Rails,
• software,
• software carpentry

Friends! Readers! Random people who ended up here alone and confused! As hopefully all of you* know by now, the 2013 eResearch Symposium is next week in Christchurch.  Started in 2010, this illustrious and awesome event is all about the… Read more › … Read More

A Perfectly Archetypical Title for This Journal

Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 21, 2013

• humour,
• journal,
• Medically-related,
• title

Wow, the weather’s foul. And it’s enfoulenating the moods of many, I imagine. So a brief, funsy Friday frivolity :P From the Pipeline column, a list of The Perfect Papers For Each Journal. Some of my favourites include: For Science:… Read more › … Read More

On sexism, with humour

Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 13, 2013

• culture,
• dorothy sayers,
• feminism,
• finkeiner test,
• sexism

A friend of mine just posted a quotation up on her Facebook feed and I thought it so good I figured I’d share it with you all. Well, to be fair, I read it, and then went and found the… Read more › … Read More

Here is today

Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 06, 2013

• culture,
• data visualisation,
• data viz,
• design,
• here is today,
• interactive,
• TIME,
• visualisation

One of the many uses of my inbox is for me to email to myself things to blog, share, write about and read. Of course, this means I have a great many unacted-upon notes in my inbox, but c’est la… Read more › … Read More

Fantastic data vis of US language differences

Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 06, 2013

• America,
• culture,
• Data,
• data viz,
• design,
• dialetc,
• Joshua Katz,
• language,
• linguistics,
• US,
• visualisation

As with all countries, large OR small, there are going to be variations in dialect and pronunciation. Given its size and history, one would expect the US to have some pretty fantastic ones. And it does! PhD (Statistics) student Joshua… Read more › … Read More