[Sigmet-officers] Webinars

[Stasa Milojevic]

  Dear all,

Happy New Year! Angela and Jason have been working on developing webinars.

Here is what Angela had in mind:

Preparing to Incorporate Visualizations into a *metrics Research Project

Information Visualization has enormous potential for researchers.  
Visualizations can be employed within a research agenda both as an 
exploratory analysis tool to better understand trends in complex data 
sets (e.g., visual analytics) and also as a way of communicating the 
results of analyses to stakeholders and other members of the research 
community.  Determining the most appropriate visualization techniques 
and incorporating those techniques into a research project, however, can 
be daunting for novice visualizers.

This webinar will approach Information Visualization from the 
perspective of researchers interested in incorporating visualizations 
into a research project within the fields of Bibliometrics, Citation 
Analysis, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics, etc.  The focus 
will be on developing an appropriate (novice) strategy for undertaking 
*metrics research-based visualizations.

The webinar will begin by introducing attendees to techniques for 
establishing the most likely and appropriate candidate data sources for 
visualization, based both on a study's research questions and on the 
needs of potential audiences/stakeholders for the visualization.  The 
webinar will then address how to structure the development of the 
visualizations and will recommend techniques and software tools that can 
be used for various types of visualizations and data sources.


I really like the idea and think it would attractive. She would be happy 
to have it in March.

There is an issue of pricing. Jason expressed an interest in offering a 
free webinar. According to the information I got on "Webinar on 
Webinars" that would cost us $50.00. Angela would not mind charging for 
her webinar. Any thoughts on this?

Best,
Stasa