Colleagues/
PubMed Faceoff: The Extreme MakeOver Mashup For Search
Results
/Gerry
What's this all about? This site applies a simple,
photorealistic variant of the Chernoff Faces visualization
technique to impact factor data for papers in the PubMed
database of biomedical literature. Basically it allows you
to search PubMed and have the results represented as a set
of human faces
The theory is that mapping multidimensional data (in this
case the age, journal impact factor and citation count
associated with each paper) to facial features takes
advantage of the fact that our brains are highly tuned to
recognise, process and differentiate between human faces.
Each paper is represented as a face. The ethnicity and
gender of the face is selected at random for visual interest
- you can turn this feature off if you so choose.
[more]
Links and Sample Faces and Search Results Available at
[ http://scholarship20.blogsp
ot.com/2008/06/pubmed-faceoff-extreme-makeover-mashup.html ]
OR
[ http://tinyurl.com/4umqhh ]
Do Visit - It's Quite A Heady Experience [
BTW: Thanks Frank Norman For The Heads Up [
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck iastate.edu
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