Special Issue: Visualizing the (Data) Future

Editorial

As libraries and academic institutions evolve into “data-driven” organizations, they are looking for meaningful ways in which to convey their data to funding and regulatory agencies, licensing and accreditation boards, and institutional students, faculty and staff. This data-driven culture is being integrated into all facets of library operations, and data visualization services is emerging as a distinct library research and service development area.

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Full-Length Papers

– Providing Library Support for Interactive Scientific and Biomedical Visualizations with Tableau by Lisa M. Federer and Douglas J. Joubert

– Using the Visualization Software Evaluation Rubric to explore six freely available visualization applications by Thea P. Atwood and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen

– Applying Data Analytics and Visualization to Assessing the Research Impact of the Cancer Cell Biology (CCB) Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Fei Yu and Barrie E. Hayes

– Data Visualization as a Library Service: Embedding Visualization Services in the Library Research Lifecycle by Andrea L. Ogier and Michael J. Stamper

EScience in Action

– Gaining Competency: Learning to Teach Data Visualization by Kristin A. Briney

Commentary

– A Brief History of Data Visualization (and the role of libraries and librarians) by Sally A. Gore