{"id":11365,"date":"2016-01-26T15:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2016-01-26T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:03:38","slug":"ecological-word-associations-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2016\/01\/26\/ecological-word-associations-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological word associations, animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luc.edu\/sustainability\/about\/staff\/dybzinskiray.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Dybzinski <\/a>(Loyola University Chicago, Institute of Environmental Sustainability) and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.ics.purdue.edu\/~gmcnickl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gord McNickle<\/a> (Purdue University, Botany and Plant Pathology, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EcoEvoGames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EvoEcoGames<\/a>) and originally published on 8 January 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\" data-video-type=\"youtube\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8FJJPVmjOxU?modestbranding=0&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;enablejsapi=1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Which ecological concepts have most occupied ecologists over the last fifty years? The video animates the frequency of words appearing in <em>Ecology<\/em> abstracts from 1964 (when the journal began publishing abstracts with research articles) to 2013. Word size is proportional to frequency. Proximity in abstracts is reflected in proximity and shared color in the word cluster. Dybzinski and McNickle used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosviewer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VOSviewer<\/a>, a program for visualizing bibliographic networks, to map a moving window of words from 400 abstracts.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about their methods in the notes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8FJJPVmjOxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Van Eck, N.J., &amp; Waltman, L. (2010). <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11192-009-0146-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping<\/a>. <em>Scientometrics<\/em>, 84(2), 523-538. \u2013 See more at: http:\/\/www.vosviewer.com\/publications\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created by Ray Dybzinski (Loyola University Chicago, Institute of Environmental Sustainability) and Gord McNickle (Purdue University, Botany and Plant Pathology, @EvoEcoGames) and originally published on 8 January 2016. Which ecological concepts have most occupied ecologists over the last fifty years? The video animates the frequency of words appearing in Ecology abstracts from 1964 (when the journal began publishing abstracts with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1763,1764],"class_list":["post-11365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology-and-society","tag-standard-ecological-english","tag-wordle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}