This month’s WIRED UK mag­a­zine fea­tures a remix of one of the well-formed.eigenfactor visu­al­iza­tions in their info­porn section.

Together with my col­leagues in Seat­tle and Umea, I mod­i­fied the “change over time” visu­al­iza­tion to tell a spe­cific story: The for­ma­tion of neu­ro­science as a field of its own right over the last decade. Orig­i­nally scat­tered across related dis­ci­plines (such as med­i­cine, mol­e­c­u­lar and cell biol­ogy or neu­rol­ogy), the neu­ro­sci­en­tific jour­nals start to define a niche of their own, reflected in the dense clus­ter emerg­ing in 2005.

Down­load a larger ver­sion with full explana­tory text here: png (1MB) pdf (4MB)

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The well-formed.eigenfactor project will be at dis­play at the Infor­ma­tion Aes­thet­ics Show­case, curated by Vic­to­ria Szabo, at SIGGRAPH 2009, August 3–7 in New Orleans. I will also give a lit­tle Mon­day morn­ing talk on the project and am really excited to be part of this first intru­sion of the infor­ma­tion aes­thet­ics scene into the con­fer­ence on com­puter graphics!

Finally, the results of a coop­er­a­tion with the guys from eigen­fac­tor are online!

For the impa­tient: here’s the direct link: http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org

The site fea­tures 4 dif­fer­ent visu­al­iza­tions, try­ing dif­fer­ent approaches to map­ping infor­ma­tion flow and cita­tion struc­ture in the sciences.

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