Toronto Star Features Innovative Work of Chris Collins
June 11th, 2007
DocuBurst, the brainchild of University of Toronto and University of Calgary Nectar PhD. student Chris Collins, was recently featured in the front page of the Ideas section of the Toronto Star. As outlined in the article, the name DocuBurst is a mash-up of document and sunburst and describes it as a new method of information visualization (a.k.a. InfoViz) that allows a person to quickly determine the cumulative theme(s) of a given book or document, while at the same time allowing specific keyword searches.
A year away from completing his PhD. Chris created DocuBurst as a final course project and continues to build on his work. In the meantime, DocuBurst’s keyword search feature will be road-tested at the University of England this fall, when Chris will be asked to help analyze Victorian literature to determine how often authors used rare words, and in what context. Collins also just entered the Future of the Book contest in which he converted MacKenzie Wark’s open source book Gamer Theory into DocuBurst format.
More information and the full Toronto Star article are available at:
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