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Some Grand Traditions

Some Grand Traditions. Scholarly and professional communications Elucidating underlying relationships Visual metaphors to enhance understanding. Data Visualization. Mining new ground. A return to old themes. Scholarly and Professional Communications. Players ( people & institutions )

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Some Grand Traditions

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  1. Some Grand Traditions • Scholarly and professional communications • Elucidating underlying relationships • Visual metaphors to enhance understanding

  2. Data Visualization • Mining new ground • A return to old themes

  3. Scholarly and Professional Communications • Players (people & institutions) • Topics • Works • Journals • Authors (oeuvres) • Documents • Bibliographic elements • Content-bearing or concept-symbols

  4. Choice of Elements to Study • Authors, Title words • Journal / source • Institutions / affiliations • Subject augmenting assignments • Other content-bearing text words • Citations, Acknowledgements • Stopwords

  5. NeglectedIslands of Analysis: Visualizing Stopwords in ASIST Conference Papers SIG-CON 2004 ASIST Annual Conference Providence, RI - November 16, 2004 Ted Morris, Kent State University School of Library and Information Science

  6. Domain of Study • Titles of ASIST 2004 Annual Conference presentations • Drawn from Preliminary Program • Locations of authors’ institutions • Explicitly stated or inferred • Googled

  7. Results • 1329 “words” • 378 “stopword” occurrences • 39 “stopwords” • Variously distributed as • Conjunctions • Prepositions • Articles • “Multipurpose” (e.g., adverb + preposition)

  8. and65 of64 the61 a31 in31 for25 an17 to14 on11 across4 from4 new4 as5 at5 with5 more3 what3 between2 how2 Texas2 their2 by, forever, I, inside, now, out, past, still, than, that, they, through, together, we, when, why, within, within, you 1 ASIST 2004 Presentation Stopword Distribution

  9. Results Discussion And 65Of 64With 5 Why 1How 2 For 25Why 1

  10. Results Discussion 2 In 31Inside 1Within 1 Out 1Outside 0 The 61That 1 68 A 31An 17 48

  11. Results Discussions 3 Across 4Between 2Out 1Through 1 8 New 4Forever 1Now 1Past 1Still 1When 1 9

  12. Results Discussions 4 More 3Than 1 Their 2We 1They 1Who 0Our 0

  13. TRANSITION SLIDE

  14. Canada*20 Denmark7 Sweden7 Australia6 Turkey6 Finland4 England3 Korea3 Netherlands3 Scotland3 Taiwan3 Belgium2 China2 France2 Israel2 Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, México, Norway, Russia, Switzerland1 * Ontario 13 Nova Scotia 4 Quebec 3 ASIST 2004 Presentation Institutional Location Distribution

  15. Massachusetts 13 Tennessee 13 Washington 13 Michigan 12 Illinois 11 Wisconsin 10 California 8 Hawaii 7 New Mexico 4 Ohio 4 Washington DC 4 Georgia 3 Louisiana 3 Missouri 3 Oklahoma 3 Virginia 3 Arizona 2 Connecticut 2 Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina 1 Texas 35 New York 22 Pennsylvania 18 New Jersey 17 North Carolina 16 Maryland 15 Indiana 14 Florida 13 ASIST 2004 Presentation Institutional Location Distribution

  16. Bush Kerry U.S. 2004 Electoral College Vote Distribution

  17. 109 169 13 1 10 13 22 12 2 18 17 8 11 14 1 3 15 8 1 1 3 1 16 4 13 2 3 4 1 3 7 35 3 13 ASIST 2004 Presenter Affiliations by Red/Blue State

  18. Further Research • Co-occurrence analysis of stopwords • Correlation of title length to stopword frequency • Correlation of punctuation frequency to stopword frequency • Co-occurrence of -- punctuation??!!

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