Category Archives: News

2017. Unlocking the power of visual grammar theory: analyzing social media political advertising messages in the 2016 US election. The Journal of Visual Literacy 36(2).

Social media advertisers often use visuals in their ads to capture their audience’s attention. Walter [...]

2017. Resurrecting Zombie Brands: Lessons from Analysis of The Walking Dead Social TV Conversation. @ American Academy of Advertising Conference.

Social television (or “social TV”) is a recent term that has been used to describe [...]

2016. Peirce’s sign theory as an open source R package. @ UseR!

Throughout Peirce’s writing, we witness his developing vision of a machine that scientists will eventually [...]

2015. Lotka’s Law package. @ UseR!

Research suggests that in order to identify a scientific domain, we need to follow the [...]

2016. Statistics for Library and Information Services. A Primer for Using Open Source R Software for Accessibility and Visualization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Statistics for Library and Information Services, written for non-statisticians, provides logical, user-friendly, and step-by-step instructions [...]

2015. The Power of Lotka’s Law Through the Eyes of R. The Romanian Statistical Review.

The paper aims to outline the author impact based on Lotka’s Law using R. Lotka’s [...]

2015. The Power of Lotka’s Law Through the Eyes of R @ 3rd International Conference: New Challenges for Statistical Software

The paper aims to outline the author impact based on Lotka’s Law using R. Lotka’s [...]

2014. The relationship between research method and visual display: a study of conference proceedings in the field of knowledge organization. Information Research 19(4).

Research method refers to how to conduct research, how to measure progress, and what constitutes [...]

2014. Pinterest through the eyes of public libraries in Florida. @13th ISKO conference

The objective of this study was to examine how Florida’s public libraries organize and classify [...]