Spatial Analytics Dashboards: Assisting Researchers to Select the Appropriate Tool

Interactive Tweaking of Text Analytics Dashboards

With the increasing importance of text analytics in all disciplines, e.g., science, business, and social media analytics, it has become important to extract actionable insights from text in a timely manner. Insights from text analytics are conventionally presented as visualizations and dashboards to the analyst. While these insights are intended to be set up as a one-time task and observed in a...

Which Metric Is More Appropriate to Evaluate Researchers?

Iranian medical universities choose their best researchers in each field annually. The protocols of this process have been modified quite often, but the changes were not fundamental and did not lead to all-inclusive evaluation tools. The recent article in Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, which proposes a scoring scale for evaluation of scientist's impact called "360-degree researcher...

Lariat: A Visual Analytics Tool for Social Media Researchers to Explore Twitter Datasets

Online social data is potentially a rich source of insight into human behavior, but the sheer size of these datasets requires specialized tools to facilitate social media research. Visual analytics tools are one promising approach, but calls have been made for more in-depth studies in specific application domains to contribute to the design of such tools. We conducted a formative study to bette...

A Novel Approach to Select an Appropriate Requirements Prioritization Technique

Requirements prioritization has been recognized as a critical and essential but challenging activity for product development. The pressure on time-to-market and being able to plan for successive release of the software product has posed many challenges to the software engineering process. Budgetary restrictions and time-tomarket deadline often compel stakeholders to cautiously prioritize requir...

NEISS Tool for Researchers