Comments for ResearchScorecard and more: Thoughts about expertise finding in academic bioresearch

Comment on Upshot from 3rd CDD Community Meeting by Andrew Lemon

Andrew Lemon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:30:57 +0000

Good to see some interest in RoR we’ve been building biological data management systems and ELN with RoR since 2006 and have found it incredibily productive.

Love to hear more of CDD developments.

Comment on Upshot from 3rd CDD Community Meeting by Rich Apodaca

Rich Apodaca — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:47:05 +0000

@Yannick, thanks for the interesting post.

Ping:

http://friendfeed.com/rapodaca/28bf9db3/upshot-from-3rd-cdd-community-meeting

Comment on Upshot from 3rd CDD Community Meeting by Barry Bunin

Barry Bunin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:40:25 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful post. It is nice when someone appreciates what we do well at this level of detail. We’ll have our own post and slides from the meeting soon at http://www.collaborativedrug.com/blog

Comment on Help ResearchScorecard: Buy these great books by Yannick Pouliot

Yannick Pouliot — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:58:04 +0000

@Hope Leman
Huh, as usual you’ve picked on a most interesting tool: Tableau seems quite impressive indeed, especially when compared with the industry-dominant Crystal Reports. It looks like non-developer users can create visualizations w/o having to understand e.g. SQL, which is a certainly not the case with Crystal and was a big disappointment in my efforts toward enabling clients of our hosted database product. Though pitched as a “query generator”, CR doesn’t do that when it comes to SQL. I’m hoping Tableau does a better job of that, though I wouldn’t be surprised if that weren’t the case, since it is a very difficult problem.

Interestingly, they have a San Mateo office right down the road, so I might just mosy down and say “hello”. Thanks again for the valuable tip!

Comment on ResearchScorecard presenting at ACS 2010 by Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:01:32 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up on this.

Apropos of, “This division consists of librarians, publishers, software and database vendors, and scientists in the fields of chemical information, chemical informatics, and drug discovery….” some of those topics are to be discussed at ScienceOnline 2010:

http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/

and I just tweeted this post as I think many people, not just chemists, need to know about the Future of Scholarly Communication symposium.

Comment on Help ResearchScorecard: Buy these great books by Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:52:43 +0000

This one looks particularly interesting. Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Michael W Cristiani, whom I follow on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/mcristia

really likes Tableau

http://www.tableausoftware.com/

Comment on POPS: Expertise location at NASA by Yannick Pouliot

Yannick Pouliot — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:29:42 +0000

Update: The U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) is installing POPS at their Cold Regions Research Engineer Lab (CRREL) in New Hampshire according to a recent entry in FedBizOpps.Gov.

I find such licensing from one part of the government to another interesting when the entities are as different as NASA and the Army, suggesting POPS has some serious legs.

Comment on Connecting folks based on their searches: The State Department’s iHarvest by K Qaadri

K Qaadri — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:06:41 +0000

Very nice! It’s always refreshing to hear how our government is trying to reduce wasteful spending and encourage collaborative efforts.

Comment on Expertise finding at UCSD by Yannick Pouliot

Yannick Pouliot — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:42:34 +0000

Thanks Hope! I’m familiar with h but hadn’t seen this article. Interesting to see that this rather exotic topic made it into something like “Wired”.

Comment on Expertise finding at UCSD by Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:34:42 +0000

Very interesting that you have developed your own ranking sytem:

“The Gated Object Productivity Rating (GOPR) score is a metric developed by ResearchScorecard that captures a scientist’s success in producing tangible research products.”

Here is a somewhat related, fascinating item:

http://www.wired.com/culture/geekipedia/magazine/17-06/mf_impactfactor