research
My interests revolve around scientometrics (using quantitative measures to better understand science), the Web (especially social media), and new, more open models of scholarly publishing.
Right now I’m particularly interested in tracking Web 2.0 activity to give us broader, more timely measures of scientific impact–an approach I’m calling scientometrics 2.0. Mention bibliometrics, webometrics, Science 2.0, Open Access, web mining, information visualization, or social networks to me and I probably won’t let you go for a while.
Here’s my CV.
code
FeedVis
An interactive visualization for examining trends in a set of rss feeds. Featured on ReadWriteWeb and Information Aesthetics.
Zotero report customizer
Sorts reports generated by the open-source Zotero reference manager; recommended in the official Zotero documentation.
Email Obfuscation Decoder
Demo for a blog post I wrote about how email obfuscation is pointless. Enter a munged mail, like “me [at] example [dot] com,” and this thing deciphers it in real time; works on a wide variety of munging techniques.
art
life
I got my BA (history) and M.Ed from the University of Florida, funded by a National Merit Scholarship. In 2002, I started as a history and language arts and media teacher at Union Grove Middle School.
After five years teaching, I spent some time as a freelance web designer, and did some research at the University of Florida's edtech program. Last year I worked building online undergrad courses at UF's Center for Instructional Technology and Training.
I'm currently a first-year doctoral student at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, funded by a 5-year Royster Fellowship.
In my spare time, I like making art, ultralight backpacking, photography, Ultimate Frisbee, soccer, judo, and music.