Digital Science just released their latest baby! Dimensions is a database for the research cycle – grants, articles, patents, and clinical trials. It’s also augmented with the Altmetric data, which means that attentions (from news&hellip

Digital Science just released their latest baby! Dimensions is a database for the research cycle – grants, articles, patents, and clinical trials. It’s also augmented with the Altmetric data, which means that attentions (from news&hellip
I do a different Advent Calendar every year. The skills I use vary with my mood, the time or the privacy I have. One year I made it in a shoe box, with 24 small&hellip
To display in an attractive and condensed way the type of projects I have been involved in, I decided to make a word cloud. I used the d3js library, which makes spot-on interactive graphs. The&hellip
In the Cities Institute I also helped on numerous cartographic projects, notably taking the lead on the spatial analysis for one project working with the CWASU and Solace Women’s Aid. Some of the data analysis&hellip
It is very easy to make a nice legend with QGIS…but it’s not that obvious. By default, the legend comes up in a box, which size cannot be changed, on one column, and each item&hellip
Since QGIS has the possibility to make different frames, cartography has only been getting better! I often have to make map with different frames (usually because there are different scales), and I found that QGIS&hellip
While trying to represent my data in the most faithful and useful way, I recently discovered the little free software ScapeToad that makes cartograms. Very well documented, this software lets users distord their data in function of&hellip