MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2016
From IRIN: The most generous emergency aid donor in 2016 was Norway. Norwegian taxpayers provided $899 million in humanitarian spending, about 0.18% of their national income. Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates took second and third place by the same yardstick. Last year, the top ranking went to Kuwait. [Clip] Figures collated by the UN […]
Here’s a new collection of holiday-related facts and stats compiled by the U.S. Census. The compilation includes direct links to the source of each statistic. Some of what you’ll find in, “The 2016 Holiday Season” compilation. 14.3% The estimated percentage of total 2015 sales for department stores (including leased departments) in December. For bookstores, the estimated percentage was 12.4 percent. Source: […]
From Perseus Digital Library Blog: An earlier blog entry pointed to a draft description of work on a new Perseus that we expect will appear, in some fashion, as a formal Request for Proposals from Leipzig in early January 2017. One reason to circulate this description is to get feedback. A second is to be […]
From tefficient: For the 14th time: tefficient’s famous data usage analysis – now covering 32 countries. The mobile data usage continued to grow in 2016, but the growth rates varied much. Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and Hungary grew the slowest whereas Lithuania, Turkey, Austria and Korea grew the fastest. The data usage top list is dominated by […]
From TimesLedger Newspapers: The new $32.4 million Elmhurst Community Library [a branch of the Queens Library] at 86-01 Broadway is nearly double the size of the original at 32,000 square feet, with four fully accessible levels for library service, separate adult, teen and children’s library spaces, and an adult learning center on its own level. […]
Research Article and Research Tool: “ScienceWISE: Topic Modeling over Scientific Literature Networks”
Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
|The following article (preprint) was recently shared by the authors on arXiv. Direct to ScienceWISE website. Title ScienceWISE: Topic Modeling over Scientific Literature Networks Authors A. Magalich, V. Gemmetto, D. Garlaschelli, A. Boyarsky University of Leiden, The Netherlands A. Martini, A. Cardillo, A. Constantin, O. Ruchayskiy, P. De Los Rios, K. Aberer École Polytechnique Fédérale […]
From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: In December 2016, the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) released NICHSR ONESearch. This consolidated search site allows researchers to search two unique databases and two specialized web portals with one simple search: Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj) – information […]
Say Hello to Hoaxy: “Indiana University Researchers Launch Tool to Understand Spread of Fake News”
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, News
|From Indiana University: The tool, called Hoaxy, visualizes how claims in the news — and fact checks of those claims — spread online through social networks. The tool is built upon earlier work at IU led by Filippo Menczer, a professor and director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research in the IU […]
From JPUpdates: The first shipment of items from the literary estate of Max Brod, the friend and literary executor of author Franz Kafka, was received by Israel’s National Library last week, Haaretz reported Tuesday. The shipment, which was received after being awarded to the library in a court ruling, contains papers from Kafka, one of the […]
1. National Geographic’s “All Over the Map” Selects The Best Maps of 2016 2 Online Learning: Coursera’s Most Popular Courses and Specializations of 2016 3. Path-Breaking Medical Researcher and Survivor of Rare, Fatal Disease to Keynote the NFAIS 2017 Annual Conference