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Atlas of Science

Visualizing What We Know
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Science maps that can help us understand and navigate the immense amount of results generated by today's science and technology.Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to navigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search for knowledge in the same way, allowing us to visualize scientific results. Science maps help us navigate, understand, and communicate the dynamic and changing structure of science and technology-help us make sense of the avalanche of data generated by scientific research today. Atlas of Science, featuring more than thirty full-page science maps, fifty data charts, a timeline of science-mapping milestones, and 500 color images, serves as a sumptuous visual index to the evolution of modern science and as an introduction to "the science of science"-charting the trajectory from scientific concept to published results. Atlas of Science, based on the popular exhibit, "Places & Spaces- Mapping Science", describes and displays successful mapping techniques. The heart of the book is a visual feast- Claudius Ptolemy's Cosmographia World Map from 1482; a guide to a PhD thesis that resembles a subway map; "the structure of science" as revealed in a map of citation relationships in papers published in 2002; a visual periodic table; a history flow visualization of the Wikipedia article on abortion; a globe showing the worldwide distribution of patents; a forecast of earthquake risk; hands-on science maps for kids; and many more. Each entry includes the story behind the map and biographies of its makers. Not even the most brilliant minds can keep up with today's deluge of scientific results. Science maps show us the landscape of what we know.

Author Biography:

Katy B rner is Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, Leader of the Information Visualization Lab, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Atlas of Science- Visualizing What We Know and the coauthor of Visual Insights- A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data, both published by the MIT Press.
Release date Australia
September 17th, 2010
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
600 color illus.
Interest Age
From 18 years
Pages
272
Dimensions
330x279x31
ISBN-13
9780262014458
Product ID
7987772

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