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cube-node

08.12.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Time Series Visualization with Cube

Today I stumbled upon Cube, an Open Source system for visualizing time series data. The system is based on Node.js, MongoDB and D3.js. The developers of the “half-baked but still tasty” tool describe Cube as: an open-source system for visualizing … Continue reading

21.11.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Google Scholar Citations now free for all

When the Google Scholar team announced Google Scholar Citations back in July, everyone was kind of disappointed that they only offered very closed access to the service. You could check the h-index of Albert Einstein, but not create an own … Continue reading

nytimes-learninganalytics

05.10.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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(Very nice) Interactive visualization from NY Times

Today George Siemens shared an interesting link in the Learning Analytics Google Group. He argues that interactive visualization can help increase end-user interest in data exploration If you have a look at what the designers at NY Times have created, … Continue reading

callontology

12.09.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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On the way to a comprehensive ontology for call for papers

Also at the RDSRP’11 Special Track of i-Know conference, we presented our work towards a comprehensive ontology modeling Call for Papers. A Call for Papers (CfP) is a small, but well-structured and information-rich message with a relatively short lifespan. CfP … Continue reading

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12.09.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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ginkgo. A Future Scientific Event Management System

Last week I attended the RDSRP’11 (Recommendation, Data Sharing, and Research Practices in Science 2.0)  Special Track at the i-Know conference 2011. I presented our ongoing work on ginkgo, a scientific event management tool that combines features from social networks … Continue reading

word cloud of the paper's content

18.08.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Knowledge Worker Roles and Actions

  Back in 2010 we asked for participation in an online questionnaire that tried to find out the existence of distinguishable roles of knowledge workers and the particular knowledge actions they perform. Today — after a long to-ing and fro-ing … Continue reading