The VOSviewer

From the website: VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. These networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on citation, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, or co-authorship relations. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.

A Geology Joke!

 

Big Data

What is Big Data? Here is a nice & practical 'definition': Big data is a dataset that is too big to be processed using MS Excel. The term 'big' can mean a variety of things: size/volume (of course),  but also update frequency (real-time maybe), containing a variety of data types, and dimensionality.

Climate Havens vs. Heavy Rain & Flooding

Sure, there are no 'true' climate havens, but to me northern Vermont & other remain places remain 'practical' climate havens despite their exposure to risk from heavy rains & associated flooding (e.g. Asheville, NC).

WMO 2024 State of the Global Climate Report

Here is the 2024 State of the Global Climate Report from the World Meteorological Organization.:

• State of the Global Climate 2024
• State of the Climate 2024 (Esri Story Map)
• Extreme Events 2024 (Web Map)

1970-2024

 

Deep Research Tools from OpenAI & Google

These tools can basically synthesize the information from 100s of websites into nice and tidy cited literature reviews. And that's great for many basic science & technology topics where there is enough information available out there on reputable online sources.

But the notion that this can replace a classic scientific literture review of meta-analysis is incorrect. First, these AIs do not have access to the actual scientific literature (which tends to sit behind paywalls). Second, there is a difference between a summary, a review, and a synthesis. Sure, a competent & trained amateur such as an AI can summarize, but reviewing & synthesizing requires a familiarity with the subject matter that can only be gained by years and years of deep immersion (aka. 10,000 hours...).