mapping funding activity tristan maillard, snsf. snsf research creates knowledge. portfolio analysis...
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SNSF Research creates knowledge.
Portfolio Analysis of a funding agency
•SNSF is Switzerland’s most important funding agency
•Mainly bottom up research funding
•Multi-disciplinary research funded: from humanities to life sciences.
•Proposal in 3 different languages.
•Open questions ( policy/decision making )
•Does the SNSF discriminate some research fields?
•Is there research fields that does not apply to the SNSF for funding?
•How do I find the most adequate referees?
•Methodology
•Modeling semantic information of 30k proposals and 100k publications
•Explore data through visualization technics.
SNSF Research creates knowledge.
Portfolio Analysis: challenges
Methodological challenges
• Going beyond co-citations ( different cultures of citations, database issues )
• Risks of over-interpretation:
A visualization is not an explanation.
Modeling is not reality!
Semantic challenges
• Multi-lingual proposals ( French, German, English )
• Find the right database to define research activity. Limitations of WoK, Scopus
• Supervised vs non-supervised methods
Mapping challenges
• The dataviz must be useful : it must depend on the question asked.
• Interactive visualisation: performance on large datasets.