Click-based visualization of the relationships between scientific fields

Over at the “Edge of Vision”, Neil Halelamien has an interesting commentary on a recent article by Johan Bollen where they take “click data” of various research papers and analyze it as a single-order Markov chain to show trends in the way visitors traverse the long lists of citations between papers.  The results are processing through some nice graph visualization techniques for interesting results.

Edge of Vision » Click-based visualization of the relationships between scientific fields.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .