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Some Grand Traditions Scholarly and professional communications Elucidating underlying relationships Visual metaphors to enhance understanding

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Some Grand Traditions

• Scholarly and professional communications

• Elucidating underlying relationships

• Visual metaphors to enhance understanding

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Data Visualization

• Mining new ground

• A return to old themes

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Scholarly and Professional Communications

• Players (people & institutions)• Topics • Works

– Journals– Authors (oeuvres)– Documents

• Bibliographic elements• Content-bearing or concept-symbols

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Choice of Elements to Study

• Authors, Title words

• Journal / source

• Institutions / affiliations

• Subject augmenting assignments

• Other content-bearing text words

• Citations, Acknowledgements

• Stopwords

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NeglectedIslands of Analysis:

Visualizing Stopwords in Visualizing Stopwords in ASIST Conference Papers

SIG-CON

2004 ASIST Annual Conference

Providence, RI - November 16, 2004Ted Morris, Kent State University

School of Library and Information Science

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Domain of Study

• Titles of ASIST 2004 Annual Conference presentations– Drawn from Preliminary Program

• Locations of authors’ institutions– Explicitly stated or inferred– Googled

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Results

• 1329 “words”

• 378 “stopword” occurrences

• 39 “stopwords”– Variously distributed as

• Conjunctions• Prepositions• Articles• “Multipurpose” (e.g., adverb + preposition)

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and 65

of 64

the 61

a 31

in 31

for 25

an 17

to 14

on 11

across 4

from 4

new 4

as 5

at 5

with 5

more 3

what 3

between 2

how 2

Texas 2

their 2

by, forever, I, inside, now, out, past, still, than, that, they, through, together, we, when, why, within, within, you 1

ASIST 2004 Presentation Stopword Distribution

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an to on as at

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Results Discussion

And 65Of 64With 5

Why 1How 2

For 25Why 1

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Results Discussion 2

In 31Inside 1Within 1

Out 1Outside 0

The 61That 1

68

A 31An 17

48

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Results Discussions 3

Across 4Between 2Out 1Through 1

8

New 4Forever 1Now 1Past 1Still 1When 1

9

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Results Discussions 4

More 3Than 1

Their 2We 1They 1Who 0Our 0

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ASIST 2004 Presentation Institutional Location Distribution

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5

10

15

20

25

Ca

na

da

De

nm

ark

Sw

ed

en

Au

str

alia

Tu

rke

y

Fin

lan

d

En

gla

nd

Ko

rea

Ne

the

rla

nd

s

Sco

tla

nd

Ta

iwa

n

Be

lgiu

m

Ch

ina

Fra

nce

Isra

el

Arg

en

tin

a

Bra

zil

Ind

ia

Ind

on

esia

xic

o

No

rwa

y

Ru

ssia

Sw

itze

rla

nd

Canada* 20

Denmark 7

Sweden 7

Australia 6

Turkey 6

Finland 4

England 3

Korea 3

Netherlands 3

Scotland 3

Taiwan 3

Belgium 2

China 2

France 2

Israel 2

Argentina, Brazil,India, Indonesia, México, Norway, Russia, Switzerland 1

* Ontario 13Nova Scotia 4Quebec 3

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ASIST 2004 Presentation Institutional Location Distribution

TexasTexas 3535

New York 22

Pennsylvania 18

New Jersey 17

North Carolina 16

Maryland 15

Indiana 14

Florida 13

MassachusettsMassachusetts 1313

Tennessee 13

Washington 13

Michigan 12

Illinois 11

Wisconsin 10

California 8

Hawaii 7

New Mexico 4

Ohio 4

Washington DC 4

Georgia 3

Louisiana 3

Missouri 3

Oklahoma 3

Virginia 3

Arizona 2

Connecticut 2

Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina 1

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U.S. 2004 Electoral College Vote Distribution

Bush Kerry

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3535

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1717

16161515

1414

1313

1313

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109 169

ASIST 2004 Presenter Affiliations by Red/Blue State

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Further Research

• Co-occurrence analysis of stopwords

• Correlation of title length to stopword frequency

• Correlation of punctuation frequency to stopword frequency

• Co-occurrence of -- punctuation??!!Co-occurrence of -- punctuation??!!