The Global Epidemic and Mobility model developed by the MoBS and the ISI foundation teams has been used to generate an animation that displays the evolution of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic on the Science On a Sphere® , a large visualization system that uses computers and video projectors to display animated data onto the outside of a sphere. The animation (see here) allows   Science On a Sphere®  users to learn about the epidemic spreading on the global scale.  
Science On a Sphere® was initially developed as a way to explore environmental data using new visualization techniques and its is now used as unique and powerful teaching tool. Science On a Sphere is installed at an increasing number of sites around the world. The current list of installation locations can be found here.

LaNet-vi is a visualization algorithm that provides images of large scale networks on a two-dimensional layout based on the k-core decomposition. In the last years LaNet-vi has been constantly used in scientific publications and books by a large number of researchers and has been featured as the cover image of books and prestigious journals. In order to provide a better user experience the LaNet-vi web site has been recently redesigned and equipped with new features and resources. The new web page can be found at lanet-vi.soic.indiana.edu, where it is possible to download the software or just use a simple web interface to upload data and retrieve the LaNet-vi visualizations. Please try it and enjoy the visualizations.

A team of MoBS researchers has participated to the data challenge sponsored by the “Mining the Digital Traces of Science” workshop. The organizers provided a subset of the full ISI Web of Science database corresponding to the field of Embryology and asked participants to find informative ways of visualizing it. 
The MoBS team has produced a visualization of the field of Embryology over the course of the last 20 years. We geocoded the affiliations of 169,577 papers published in this period and analyzed the citation patterns at the city level. Two cities were connected whenever a paper written in city A cited a paper written in city B. The color of the edge color varies from green to red indicating the direction of citation, from citing to cited city. Green areas indicate regions where new papers are being produced, while red areas indicate the regions that lay the foundations for the current developments. The top 10 most influential cities according to a newly developed ranking algorithm are also shown as well as a word cloud illustrating the main topics studied during that year. As the animation progresses, we are able to see geographical and topical patterns emerging. New leading cities emerge and the Embriology explores new topics as seen by the word cloud and the geographical distribution of links.