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Pretty maps: evaluating GIS adoption of cartographic design standards and best practices in professional publications
The nature of GIS maps, as tools designed for visual communication, puts them in the realm of art that is in many ways unique among scientific tools. As a visual form of communication, maps are responsive to methods of visual design, affecting the map’s appeal and function. Through cartography, a well established body of standards and best-practices exists to help GIS users avoid common design errors and create effective and meaningful maps that support their work. This research examines the adoption rate of those standards amongst professionals using GIS software for creating maps for journal publications. A selection of 80 GIS-produced maps from the AAG’s Professional Geographer were examined and compared to a uniform set of cartographic standards to look for trends in the adoption rates of map design standards amongst GIS map makers. Maps were rated by the author on their use of cartographic standards based on map content and purpose as opposed to their aesthetic quality. The data show trends in GIS cartographic design use that closely follow the inclusion of default values in common GIS software. The implication is that GIS professionals making maps are typically not applying cartographic standards on their own, but mostly following the standards set up in their software of choice. This suggests that there is still significant work to be done in teaching the value of cartographic principles to GIS students and practitioners
Feasibility study of an Integrated Program for Aerospace-vehicle Design (IPAD) system. Volume 2: Characterization of the IPAD system, phase 1, task 1
The aircraft design process is discussed along with the degree of participation of the various engineering disciplines considered in this feasibility study
FraudDroid: Automated Ad Fraud Detection for Android Apps
Although mobile ad frauds have been widespread, state-of-the-art approaches
in the literature have mainly focused on detecting the so-called static
placement frauds, where only a single UI state is involved and can be
identified based on static information such as the size or location of ad
views. Other types of fraud exist that involve multiple UI states and are
performed dynamically while users interact with the app. Such dynamic
interaction frauds, although now widely spread in apps, have not yet been
explored nor addressed in the literature. In this work, we investigate a wide
range of mobile ad frauds to provide a comprehensive taxonomy to the research
community. We then propose, FraudDroid, a novel hybrid approach to detect ad
frauds in mobile Android apps. FraudDroid analyses apps dynamically to build UI
state transition graphs and collects their associated runtime network traffics,
which are then leveraged to check against a set of heuristic-based rules for
identifying ad fraudulent behaviours. We show empirically that FraudDroid
detects ad frauds with a high precision (93%) and recall (92%). Experimental
results further show that FraudDroid is capable of detecting ad frauds across
the spectrum of fraud types. By analysing 12,000 ad-supported Android apps,
FraudDroid identified 335 cases of fraud associated with 20 ad networks that
are further confirmed to be true positive results and are shared with our
fellow researchers to promote advanced ad fraud detectionComment: 12 pages, 10 figure
Visualisation of the information resources for cell biology
Intelligent multimodal interfaces can facilitate scientists in utilising available information resources. Combining scientific visualisations with interactive and intelligent tools can help create a “habitable” information space. Development of such tools remains largely iterative. We discuss an ongoing implementation of intelligent interactive visualisation of information resources in cell biology
Learning to Generate Posters of Scientific Papers
Researchers often summarize their work in the form of posters. Posters
provide a coherent and efficient way to convey core ideas from scientific
papers. Generating a good scientific poster, however, is a complex and time
consuming cognitive task, since such posters need to be readable, informative,
and visually aesthetic. In this paper, for the first time, we study the
challenging problem of learning to generate posters from scientific papers. To
this end, a data-driven framework, that utilizes graphical models, is proposed.
Specifically, given content to display, the key elements of a good poster,
including panel layout and attributes of each panel, are learned and inferred
from data. Then, given inferred layout and attributes, composition of graphical
elements within each panel is synthesized. To learn and validate our model, we
collect and make public a Poster-Paper dataset, which consists of scientific
papers and corresponding posters with exhaustively labelled panels and
attributes. Qualitative and quantitative results indicate the effectiveness of
our approach.Comment: in Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI'16), Phoenix, AZ, 201
Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time
Assessing the influence of a scholar's work is an important task for funding
organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as
measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and
multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for
generating dynamic visualizations of scholars' careers. This approach uses an
animated node-link diagram showing the citation network accumulated around the
researcher over the course of the career in concert with key indicators,
highlighting influence both within and across fields. We developed our design
in collaboration with one funding organization---the Pew Biomedical Scholars
program---but the methods are generalizable to visualizations of scholarly
influence. We applied the design method to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which
includes more than 120 million publications. We validate our abstractions
throughout the process through collaboration with the Pew Biomedical Scholars
program officers and summative evaluations with their scholars
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