Leveraging VIVO DataVisualizations, queries and reports

Paul Albertpaa2013@med.cornell.eduWeill Cornell Medical College

Step #1Get good data.

Step #2Create something useful.

exceptional

What can we really learn from bad data?

Administrators: no fansof the error bar are they

Native Visualizations in VIVO

Co-author visualization

Publication sparklines

Co-investigator visualization

Temporalgraphs

Map of Science

DemoTime

Caveats for publication visualizations

• Is the data complete?

• Map of Science looks at the topic of the journal, not necessarily the article

• Agnostic about:- type of publication (e.g., editorial,

academic article)- significance of finding- author contribution

Generating Reports

Westheimer's Law

A few months in the laboratory can save a few hours in the library.

Corollary of Westheimer's Law

A few hours of SPARQL query construction can save you a few seconds of searching.

This does not work.

This does.

Object property should take user to all faculty members

who attended Tufts

Strongly consider linking out your data properties as well.

The tool of choice for fancy questions

SPARQL Query Builder

Most needs for data are not articulated

Articulated question #1Show me a current list of

publications by the following people.

Articulated question #2Which researchers have published the most research articles within a given set of basic science journals

within the last five years?

Articulated question #3How many journal articles have researchers published between October 2011 and March 2012?

Articulated question #4What is my H-index?

Identifying unarticulated research questions

extrapolateinvestigate

hypothesizeinfer

interviewcollaborate

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison Source: Yahoo Answers

We have proposed several research questions that elicited enthusiasm.

Dean’s Representative

Proposed question #1How has the number of publications co-authored with other institutions

changed year to year?

Proposed question #2Publications appearing in journals of

a given impact factor

Proposed question #3In any given year, which paper has

the most incoming citations?

Proposed question #4Which papers that have received

federal funding are not deposited in PubMed Central?

Proposed question #5Who are our institutions’ open

access key opinion leaders?

Proposed question #6Which PIs have the most

collaborations based on grant support?

Proposed question #7Which faculty have dual

appointments?

Modes of Delivery• Emailed attachments

- Spreadsheet - PDF- Word file- Bibliographic tool (e.g., .ris file)

• Link to VIVO web interface

• Third-party “data dashboard”

Goals for Reporting

1. Define the key questions. Goal: a set of fundamental questions

we ask about our researchers.

2. Allow for more key questions to be addressed

via browsing

Ingest more data in key areas and...

In areas where VIVO hasn’t quite figured out how to do something important...

3. Create third-party framework that will ingest

VIVO data and readily answer these questions.

Framework will be open source and could be incorporated into VIVO in future

releases.

Data Dashboard Project for Our Summer CS Students

• build on Miles Worthington’s Drupal/VIVO work

• tackle some of the proposed questions that have not made it into core

• can be customized for di!erent viewers

• collaboration welcome

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Is VIVO Facebook for Researchers?

• No Mendeley is… (Ha)

Questions?