Mapping Science with Places & Spaces

The iSGTW’s Image of the Week comes from the NSF-funded “Places and Spaces” project which aims to create 10 new maps of massive data a year until 2014, resulting in 100 maps.  Each year has a theme, with the first 5 years down.

• (2005): The Power of Maps
• (2006): The Power of Reference Systems
• (2007): The Power of Forecasts
• (2008): Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers
• (2009): Science Maps for Science Policy Makers
• (2010): Science Maps for Scholars
• (2011): Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries
• (2012): Science Maps for Kids
• (2013): Science Maps for Daily Science Forecasts
• (2014): Telling Lies with Science Maps

You can view the Places & Spaces website to see the existing maps they’ve created, or visit the various physical exhibits they’ve set up.

Image of the Week – Mapping Science.

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 .