[Asis-l] Pubmed Faceoff: The Extreme MakeOver Mashup For Search Results

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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.blogspot.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 at iastate.edu 

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