Research Catalog

Title

Atlas of knowledge : anyone can map / Katy Börner.

Author

Börner, Katy

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xi, 211 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 29 x 34 cm

Summary

Maps of physical spaces locate us in the world and help us navigate unfamiliar routes. Maps of topical spaces help us visualize the extent and structure of our collective knowledge; they reveal bursts of activity, pathways of ideas, and borders that beg to be crossed. This book, from the author of Atlas of Science, describes the power of topical maps, providing readers with principles for visualizing knowledge and offering as examples forty large-scale and more than 100 small-scale full-color maps. Today, data literacy is becoming as important as language literacy. Well-designed visualizations can rescue us from a sea of data, helping us to make sense of information, connect ideas, and make better decisions in real time. In Atlas of Knowledge, leading visualization expert Katy Börner makes the case for a systems science approach to science and technology studies and explains different types and levels of analysis. Drawing on fifteen years of teaching and tool development, she introduces a theoretical framework meant to guide readers through user and task analysis; data preparation, analysis, and visualization; visualization deployment; and the interpretation of science maps. To exemplify the framework, the Atlas features striking and enlightening new maps from the popular Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit that range from Key Events in the Development of the Video Tape Recorder to Mobile Landscapes: Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis to Literary Empires: Mapping Temporal and Spatial Settings of Victorian Poetry to Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe. She also discusses the possible effect of science maps on the practice of science.

Subject

• Information visualization
• Science > Atlases
• Statistics > Graphic methods
• Science > Study and teaching > Graphic methods
• Communication in science > Data processing
• Technical illustration
• Graphic arts
• technical illustration (process)
• Science
• Informationstheorie
• Wissensrepräsentation
• Wissens- und Technologietransfer
• Visualisatie
• Grafische methoden
• Wetenschapsvoorlichting

Genre/Form

• atlases.
• Scientific atlases.
• Atlases.
• Atlas.

Note

• One of a series of three publications influenced by the travelling exhibit Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Science and technology facts -- Envisioning science and technology -- Science maps in action -- Outlook.

ISBN

• 9780262028813
• 0262028816

LCCN

• 2014028219
• 99964056390

OCLC

• ocn884139818
• 884139818
• SCSB-14106057

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library