By: plastic_animals
Reading through the comments Kid Charlemagne links to it's clear that the author made the map because he thought the patterns would be interesting rather than for any analytical purpose. That is, there...
View ArticleBy: Sangermaine
It would be interesting to create such a map year-by-year as far back as records go. Again, not super-useful, but it might be neat to see what sort of shifts there have been over the decades.
View ArticleBy: Kid Charlemagne
I just tried to overlay part of this with a map of the US because I was curious how the home town was doing and the more I looked, the more I realized that either the HAL 9000 project is really...
View ArticleBy: scblackman
That huge bright line on the East Coast of the USA is all of the collaborations between the NIH and the Boston institutions, I figure.
View ArticleBy: special-k
Occasionally a scientist will collaborate for some logical reason, such as having complementary skills with another scientist. In my field this is almost always.
View ArticleBy: plastic_animals
The bright line in the Northeast US is from Boston to DC via New Haven, New York City and Philadelphia. In addition to university-based research the DC area has a huge contingent of Federal gov't...
View ArticleBy: grouse
Mostly though, we collaborate because there is a funding advantage to it. This must vary by field but the "mostly" isn't my experience at all.
View ArticleBy: lalochezia
Occasionally a scientist will collaborate for some logical reason, such as having complementary skills with another scientist If you're at a predominantly undergraduate institution, collaboration is...
View ArticleBy: acrasis
Occasionally a scientist will collaborate for some logical reason, such as having complementary skills with another scientist. Mostly though, we collaborate because there is a funding advantage to it....
View ArticleBy: hoyland
I don't think it's totally useless, but I agree it's hard to derive useful information from it. It looks like we can deduce that everyone has European collaborators and that Japan and either South...
View ArticleBy: Nelson
It's pretty, but this map visualization really shows us nothing except that a lot of researchers live in a few parts of the world. The lines drawn between the continents convey no meaning.
View ArticleStand back, I'm going to try science. wait...let's work together
Map of scientific collaboration between researchers.[ High Res] , [ zoomable version] Related: Facebook map.
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