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Hi Jon,

Below is are collated responses from list members collected by Helen who asked a similar question back in 2010. Also I remember there is a was a thread discussing presenting OR, RR, RD, etc. but can't find it right now.

Hope this helps.

Ahmed

Dear all,
 
A few weeks ago I asked the Evidence-Based Health discussion list for 
advice about presenting the results of evidence searches visually. Thank 
you to the people who replied. I have summarised the responses below.
 
 
Examples http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ 
www.gopubmed.com which shows author links and articles published 
geographically. The BMJ (and probably others) use a 2D 'Citation Map' 
function on their journal website- see 
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/citemap?id=bmj;340/jan14_1/b5479 
http://www.nntonline.net/visualrx/ or 
http://www.nntonline.net/visualrx/v3/display.aspx
 
 
Books/articles Cleveland, WS Visualizing Data 
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=529269 Garfield, E. Identifying core 
literature through citation analysis and visualisation. 
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.62.5626&rep=rep1&type=pdf 
2004 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2004) Major 
Information Visualization Authors, Papers and Topics in the ACM Library 
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/INFVIS.2004.45
 
Blogs
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/contact/ 
http://infosthetics.com/information_aesthetics_about.html 
 
Theories Social network analysis mapping - influence of different sources 
and people in generating and spreading/referring research findings.
 
Software 2D bibliometric software 'RefViz' http://www.refviz.com/ - no 
longer available. More complicated version called OmniViz 
http://www.biowisdom.com/tag/omniviz/ ThinkMap - http://www.thinkmap.com - 
to see an example - 3D thesaurus at http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Nvivo 
software http://www.qsrinternational.com/ - import the sources into Nvivo 
and code the evidence to make relationships between the different sources. 
Prezi is a zooming story telling and presentation tool. Topic scape 
http://www.topicscape.com/Topicscape-3D-mindmap-structure-explained.php - 
3D mind map.
 
Helen
 
Helen Outhwaite
Knowledge Manager, Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory
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