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Literature Hacking

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Mapping Collaboration in Astronomy

A couple of weeks ago I began to geocode the database of astronomical research I scraped from NASA ADS during .Astronomy 4. This database consists of all the…

Visualising Collaboration in Astronomy

Over on this link, you’ll find a data-driven document (D3 FTW!) showing collaboration between the most authorship-intensive institutions in astronomy. The…

Geocoding the Literature

I (or rather my computer) spent most of this morning geocoding the database of astronomical papers that I scraped from NASA ADS a while back. I’ve got about a…

Authorship in Astronomy

If you’ve been following the recent series of posts about my data mining, then a) I apoligise and b) it just got better! The short story is that research in…

Astrochemistry Word Matrix

Just for fun, I took a list of molecules you can find in space and made a word matrix from it. The result shows the relationship between molecular species and…

Mining the Astronomical Literature

At .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg, I began hacking on some natural language processing of the astronomical literature as part of my Hack Day project with Sarah…