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More fun with Visualizations

This has been another week working on visualizations. I have summarised some of the results in a blog post over at the PLoS API website. One of my current favorites is the dot chart. PLoS Computational Biology publishes a collection of Ten Simple Rules. The dot chart below summarizes the HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and Mendeley readers for this collection.

On Wednesday I gave a presentation about Article-Level Metrics, using many of the same visualizations. You can find the slides over at Speaker Deck (my new favorite to upload presentation slides).

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