The Social Network Innovation Lab is pleased to announce the beta launch of its new tool to visualize the activity of users on a popular virtual life science community of practice. Amongst other things, the community includes virtual spaces to promote the creation of life science-oriented virtual organizations. The community (including usernames) have been anonymized.
The tool’s visualization engine uses the Google Earth API to plot and explore the location-based activity of users in this community. BioViz was developed by Professor Dhiraj Murthy, lab programmer Alexander Gross, and undergraduate student research fellows Alex Takata and Macgill Eldredge.
The tool is still under development in the Lab, and is released now in its beta form with some known bugs. The current tool visualizes activity within the virtual community from a topic specific standpoint, as well as allowing comparison of these results against a broad range of other potentially relevant location based demographic data.
In order to share the online visualization tool we have made the tool available to the public. BioViz can be found here. If you experience any problems or bugs with this tool please leave a comment at this page and we will endeavor to resolve them quickly.
BioViz is a research output supported by NSF Grant #1025428
