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“Big Data” Revitalizing Librarianship: Impact On Librarians, Alice A. Bamigbola Dr.
“Big Data” Revitalizing Librarianship: Impact On Librarians, Alice A. Bamigbola Dr.
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Advanced technologies undeniably developed in the 4th Industrial Revolution era, and led to incessantly growing volumes of information daily. “Big Data” is simply information surplus due to the volume, velocity, variety, variability and veracity of the data that need to be processed to get value and better visualisation. Big Data helps libraries understand the ever-changing users’ needs, consequently reshaping their services and procedures. However, it offers several information challenges concerning its capturing, storage, searching, structuring, and visualization. This paper, explores the concept of Big Data in a library environment, how to introduce Big Data, its benefits in the library, roles …
Tapping Twitter Data For Analyzing And Visualizing Public Sentiments On Censorship, Naveen Kumar Yadav, Akhilesh K.S. Yadav
Tapping Twitter Data For Analyzing And Visualizing Public Sentiments On Censorship, Naveen Kumar Yadav, Akhilesh K.S. Yadav
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The main objective of this research study is to analyse and visualize Twitter data with tags “#Censorship”. A connection was established with twitter using Twitter API, and receiving the tweets on Google Spreadsheets. Data visualization was performed using various tools such as Voyant Tools, Tableau, Google Spreadsheet and Orange in order to generate different visualizations based upon, language, geographical areas, retweets etc. The sentiment analysis was performed for the sentiments that were attached to the given set of data by the public in their respective tweets. The 23680 tweets were retrieved during the data collection time and there were 13,771 …
Information Visualization Research Publications During 1990-2018: A Scientometric Analysis, Kunwar Singh, Abhishek Ranjan, Somesh Rai
Information Visualization Research Publications During 1990-2018: A Scientometric Analysis, Kunwar Singh, Abhishek Ranjan, Somesh Rai
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
To understand the history and research status of information visualization, information visualization research citation data has been collected from the Scopus expanded during the period from 1990 to 2018. Results indicated that the research of information visualization has increased during the studied 29-year period. The country with the highest research output was the United States with 1996 publications, while the institution with the highest research output was the CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. The majority of research articles have been contributed from developed countries. It also revealed that developed countries have more research advantages in comparison to developing …