Analyzing data about our data

Heather  Piwowar  @researchremix  cofounder,  ImpactStory.    Postdoc  at  NESCent.

#RDS2013  

Analyzing Data about our Data

some photos NC, SA

We want to understand the impact of our datasets

Something that we data-people often forget:

IMPACT ISN’T JUST CITATIONS

Many types of engagement:

• views• saves• discussions• formal references• recommendations

Many engagement groups:

• researchers• teachers• students• policy makers• practitioners

journal article citation formal reference from a scholar

journal article in-text link formal reference from a scholar

blog in-text link informal discussion from a scholar

tweet in-text link informal discussion from a scholar... or a teacher, student, policy maker, ...

Mendeley, delicious bookmark saveby someonefor some reason :)

GitHub star

recommendationby someone

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixscapes/4331070047

Analyze Data about our Data

CC-BY-NC by maniacyak on flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/maniacyak/3432589472

Impact flavour

How can we do this?

What is possible now?

What data exists, and how can we analyze it?

Board: Cameron Neylon John Wilbanks

Open metrics, with context, for diverse products.!

Also:

Altmetric.comPlum AnalyticsData Citation Index

1. More data about our data

a) More metrics exposed

http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.18

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/3131/utilization

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/3131/utilization

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/3131/utilization

b) More support for all types of engagement

Today: full pallet for articles

Tools to support all stages of web-native engagementstill lacking for datasets.

#callToAction

c) more derived metrics, more context

2) More open

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/2055471833

OPEN text mining of articlesOPEN data from reposOPEN metrics from aggregators

1. More data about our data2. More open

3. More awareness

http://datapub.cdlib.org/nsf-now-allows-data-in-biosketch-accomplishments/

Piwowar H. (2013). Value all research products, Nature, 493 (7431) 159-159. DOI: 10.1038/493159a

Drive demandDrive change

1. More data about our data2. More open3. More awareness

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/722900022/

thank you!Jason Priem: cofounder of ImpactStory

Also: Todd Vision, Mike Whitlock, the open science community, and those who release their articles, datasets and photos openly.

blog.ImpactStory.orgteam@ImpactStory.org

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