Visualise the Citation Tree

[RichardLitt]

It would be great if you could visualize the tree of citations you may be interested in following.

Use case: The root is the current document. Throughout the document, you see references to the references. At any point, you can click on a reference (for example, a [1]), and you can see a pop-up with the citation from the references list that corresponds to that number. (The word references is confusing; here, I mean both the footnote number and it's corresponding item). If that document is open access, you can click and follow through to that document. The Sidebar will remain open. If you wish, you can then open a visualization of your current node - the new document - and it's root, the document you were previously on.

Some help to do this in d3: http://nicolashery.com/integrating-d3js-visualizations-in-a-react-app/

[jameswweis]

Awesome -- glad this made it up here. Adam and I had an image representing this from several months ago. I’ll upload it if I find it.

[RichardLitt]

Yep. But closed until possible.

[RichardLitt]

Perhaps we can use Plot.ly for this.

[RichardLitt]

This might be useful! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2015/06/26/announcing-the-microsoft-academic-graph-let-the-research-begin.aspx

[jameswweis]

This is great! Easily downloadable and 29.8GiB for the entire graph.
To build a citation tree, we could just have ‘Paper ID’ as nodes (from the
‘Papers’ dataset), and then draw directed edges from each ‘Paper ID’ to each
‘Paper reference ID’ (from the ‘PaperReferences’ datasets).
Lots of other information here as well, though -- Journals, conferences,
keywords, fields of study -- this is a really rich data set.
I’m happy to process some of this into either a visualization (although we
wouldn’t want it all in memory at once) or some other format that would be
useful.
James W. Weis

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Richard Littauer < [email protected] > wrote:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_ er/archive/2015/06/26/ announcing-the-microsoft-
academic-graph-let-the- research-begin.aspx

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