Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Spring 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood
Spring 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Spring 2017 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.
Using Course-Subject Co-Occurrence (Csco) To Reveal The Structure Of An Academic Discipline: A Framework To Evaluate Different Inputs Of A Domain Map, Peter A. Hook
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
This article proposes, exemplifies, and validates the use of course-subject co-occurrence (CSCO) data to generate topic maps of an academic discipline. A CSCO event is when two course-subjects are taught in the same academic year by the same teacher. 61,856 CSCO events were extracted from the 2010-11 directory of the American Association of Law Schools and used to visualize the structure of law school education in the United States. Different normalization, ordination (layout), and clustering algorithms were compared and the best performing algorithm of each type was used to generate the final map. Validation studies demonstrate that CSCO produces topic …
Fall 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Fall 2017 Newsletter: The Docket, Emma M. Wood
Law Library Newsletter
Copy of the Fall 2017 issue of the UMass Law Library Newsletter, The Docket.