Most charts are interactive.

Start by choosing a driving question from the Research Question Dropdown. The document similarity score filters relevant matches. Drill down into a related topic, date range, P-value range, country of interest or publication source.

Click on a record row in the datatable to see full metadata including full text and links, if available.

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The web-app is built using D3.js and dc.js, two JavaScript libraries that in combination offer rapid data-driven visualization, aggregation, and interactivity.

Here are few easter eggs that we found within the dataset.

1. You can use the p-value slider to select only documents that have p-values within a certain range. Simply click and drag in the p-value graph and only documents that mention p-values in that range will remain.
   1. We didn’t intentionally search for significant p-values.
   2. This means even when you ask for found p-values below 0.05, you’ll get researchers who report a claim as “p > 0.05.” We found this useful, since it’s an interesting way that researchers report negative results.
   3. You can see the claims associated to the p-values by clicking on the document itself in the center of the window.
2. The rapid keyword / title / author filter is also an interesting place to look for things you care about. Surprisingly, this document set has a lot of ancillary information in it, including a whole set of papers on MRSA. You can see that using our unsupervised clustering (see below). If for some reason you care about MRSA, you can filter papers on that.
3. Document view is useful when you want to dig into the documents text. Simply click on the document you want and you can see useful information including (i) claims in the document with their p-values and (ii) automatically generated keywords (which are also used to make our word cloud).
4. Most biologists may not care about the Kaggle Questions, but they can help drive some investigations. Let’s say you care about interventions. Once you choose that question, the document list will update with matches to that question and the word cloud will reflect the new question. If you then adjust the document score so that only higher scoring documents are returned, then you can zoom in on research that might help answer your questions. Notice the p-value filter is still on.
5. You can always reset all publications filters in the button on the right: Once there, just reset the filters.
6. If you care about a specific country, you can always use the country selector to narrow down documents that mention that country. Once that country is selected, only papers mentioning that country are shown. You can use the keyword search to narrow down further to only those topics for which Italy is a keyword. (Italy was the country we picked earlier.) As before, we could add additional filters onto this search.