Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

(Previous semester highlights posts: Spring 2017 , Spring 2016 , Spring 2015 , Spring/Fall 2013 , Fall 2012 , Fall 2011 ) Here are a few projects that I'd like to highlight from Fall 2017. (All class projects are listed in my InfoVis Gallery .)  All of the projects were implemented using the D3.js library. World Leader Interactions on Social Media (Twitter)  Created by Grant Atkins This project (available at http://www.cs.odu.edu/~gatkins/world-leader-vis/app/ ) provides an interactive dashboard to visualize ways Twitter list data can be used and represented. This visualization uses the World Leaders list on Twitter , with the addition of a few world leaders not on the list, to derive information and visualize shared information among these users. The goal of this visualization is to show shared term usage among world leaders, see which times tweets are more likely to be sent out, the sentiment of the users, and the decay of data allocated in a static decreasing tim

An unprecedented four Web Science & Digital Library ( WS-DL ) courses will be offered in Fall 2017:  CS 418/518 " Web Programming ", Tuesdays 4:20-7:00 pm (CRNs 14356 & 14357), will be offered by Dr. Justin F. Brunelle .  This will be an updated version of CS 418/518 last taught in Fall 2016 by Dr. Brunelle.  CS 734/834 " Introduction to Information Retrieval ", Thursdays 4:20-7:00 pm (CRNs 13631 & 13639) offered by Dr. Michael L. Nelson .  This will be an updated version of the same course most recently taught in Fall 2016 .   CS 725/825 " Information Visualization ", Fridays 8:30-11 am (CRNs 19344 & 19345) offered by Dr. Michele C. Weigle .  This will be an updated version of the same course most recently taught in Spring 2017 .  CS 791/891 " Web Archiving Seminar ", Wednesdays 2:00-4:30 pm (CRNs 21302 & 21303) offered by Drs. Nelson & Weigle.  This is a new seminar for incoming and prospective WS-DL students wh