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Visualizations that help explain science, and tips on how to create and interpret them.

Open Scholarly Metrics for the Journal of Open Source Software

Open Scholarly Metrics for the Journal of Open Source Software

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages published as open source software. JOSS started publishing in 2016, and has published more than 1,500 articles so far. After five years and that many articles, it is time to have

Visualizing Scholarly Content

Visualizing Scholarly Content

One topic I will cover this Sunday in a presentation on Open Scholarship Tools at Wikimania 2014 together with Ian Mulvany is visualization. Data visualization is all about telling stories with data, something that is of course not only important for scholarly content, but for example increasingly common in journalism.

Creating charts with Datawrapper

Figures are an important part of any scientific document. While the kind of figure commonly used obviously varies between disciplines, charts are an important part of many publications. There are two problems in how charts are currently used: * the data used to draw the chart are not available or difficult

Using d3.js to visualize Article-Level Metrics over time

Using d3.js to visualize Article-Level Metrics over time

PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a great set of data (available via API and as monthly data dump) for some nice data visualizations. I have recently become a big fan of the d3.js javascript library, and have now used d3 to look at some ALM data over time. I

What Users do with PLOS ONE Papers

What Users do with PLOS ONE Papers

Inspired by four recent blog posts and their comments (Comments at journal websites: just turn them off, Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE, No Comment?, If you email it, they will comment), I created a graphic to show what users do with PLoS ONE papers. As always,

More fun with Visualizations

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

Visualizing tweets linking to a paper

Visualizing tweets linking to a paper

DNA Barcoding the Native Flowering Plants and Conifers of Wales has been one of the most popular new PLoS ONE papers in June. In the paper Natasha de Vere et al. describe a DNA barcode resource that covers the 1143 native Welsh flowering plants and conifers. My new job as