Visual Analytic Studies of Science (Video)

At the end of May, I gave a presentation on this topic at the LLC Workshop on "Philosophy of Science Meets Quantitative Studies of Science" (University of Turin, 27-29 May 2024).

The landscape of science is constantly changing and uneven in terms of attention, uncertainty, consensus, interdisciplinarity, just to name a few. To understand such a complex and dynamic landscape of science, one would need to examine patterns and trends across a wide range of granularity levels, from the novelty of a specific concept to a broader context at an interdisciplinary level, to synthesize insights and evidence from diverse, controversial, and even contradictory arguments, and to connect theories of science and the reality. I outlined a visual analytic framework of science of science and demonstrate what types of insights this framework of thinking can bring to us effectively and systematically and how researchers can benefit from such insights. In particular, I highlighted a series of illustrative cases: How did a research field shift its focus to the next research questions? What happened next to a field of research once a decade-long search for diagnostic evidence was found? What serve as the building blocks for interdisciplinary research? How can we tell it was the work of a recurring mechanism?

Here is the video link of my presentation on Visual Analytic Studies of Science, including the Q&As at the end:

https://youtu.be/t-BbGhxLkH4?si=PktFlgSsuLvyQVDa

You can download the slides here https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33206.51529.

Here is the link for the entire playlist of the workshop:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPlZ4NrhUoUQYD74Qz2bnmK18YqqaKaPB