Category Archives: Meet the Jargon-Busters

Isadora Janssen

Screen Shot 2015-01-20 at 1.47.17 AM Official Nickname: Isadora from Waitrose – Cause I look just as good behind check-outs as Alex from Target did.

Primarily responsible for analysing articles and disciplines that fall into the  Social Sciences bracket-  came up with the technicality ratios used to compare articles between subjects and between disciplines. Also, wrote the code that calculates both ratios, removes repeats and replaces bits of string in a list. Oh and  a couple of blog pages here and there.

Rain Soo Jamin

Primarily responsible for analysing articles and disciplines that fall into the Arts

rainbracket, and working out the Python code for our complex visualisations.

Roles included:
  • Wrangled with the code for
    • Charts in matplotlib
    • Network Visualisation
    • Word Clouds
  • Compilation of any dataset that has to do with the Arts
  • Mathematically worked out percentage of shared vocabulary between every subject
  • Organisation of Blog Presentation
  • Visualisations:
    • Arts Journal Impact within the world of Academia
    • Bar Charts depicting Most Shared Technical Words between the Arts disciplines
    • Essentially, any and all Arts related visualisations!

#makingitRAIN

Isabelle Blackmore

a.k.a ‘Invisabelle’ Blackmore

Health and Environment Major, Cheerleader and all-round Interdisciplinary enthusiast.

**Credit goes to fellow teammate – Isadora Janssen – for christening me with my alter ego: ‘Invisabelle’, so called because of my knack for disappearing off to go and make a cup of tea** 

Primarily responsible for analysing articles and disciplines that fall into the Sciences bracket, although my roles also extended to collecting and compiling datasets of various Citation Metrics.

Roles included:

As well as my ‘data crunching’ roles’, I was also responsible for the posts indulging in some food for thought around topics raised through our investigation Such topics include:

Volià – Invisabelle in a nutshell! Now you see me, now you don’t!