[R] Literature analysis

Ista Zahn istazahn at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 14:37:32 CET 2009


It sounds pretty simple so far. Just put the citation info in a data
frame, and plot it. I would use ggplot2 for plotting, but it could be
done in base or lattice too.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Schwan <s.s.hosseiny at utwente.nl> wrote:
> Ok good question I havent explain!
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> Well,lets keep it simple for the begining. By analyzing the
> keywords(which can also include the authors name) I mean,
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> 1) investigate in which paper the keyword occur and how often
> 2) investigate if keywords occur together
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> X axis can show the paper title (or authors name)
> y axis shows the keywords
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> if a keyword occurs more often in a paper then the dot on the graph
> changes the color
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> if keywords occur together then a symbol the same symbol appears.
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> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 04:33 -0800, nshephard wrote:
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>> Schwan wrote:
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>> > Thanks for all the comments,
>> >
>> > and sorry about the unstructured question! I am trying to:
>> >
>> > 1: analyze keywords, names from Authors and year of publication from
>> > citations (with abstracts) i downloaded fron various sites(these
>> > downloads can be converted into ".txt" files as well)
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>> Sorry to bang the drum but what do you mean by "analyse", is it to simply
>> count keywords and rank them, investigate which keywords occur together,
>> look at trends in keywords by year or something else completely.
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>> Its a very general term (at least for me as I've no knowledge or experience
>> of text mining)!
>>
>> Neil
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