ALM Viz

A series of d3.js sparklines for PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) API JSON results at the article level.

An example can be found on the github page

These visualizations were inspired by conversations at the Alt-Viz hackathon group hosted by PLOS in November 2012. More info

license - -

almviz is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

almviz is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

How to use

• import alm.js
• import almviz.css and jqueryUi.css (if not already using jqueryUI)
• declare options object
  • almStatsJson: The JSON response from the ALM app
  • additionalStatsJson (optional): an additional source (for appending to ALM app response)
  • baseUrl: URL of ALM installation for pointing users back
  • minItemsToShowGraph*: assoc array with the following keys, declaring conditions for when to show graph
    • minEventsForYearly
    • minEventsForMonthly
    • minEventsForDaily
    • minYearsForYearly
    • minMonthsForMonthly
    • minDaysForDaily
  • hasIcon: array of sources that have icons on the ALM server
  • showTitle: boolean to display the title of the article at the top of the visualization
  • categories: array of objects with the following keys: name, display_name, tooltip_text
    • i.e., [{ name: "html", display_name: "HTML Views", tooltip_text: "Total number of HTML page views for this article. "}, { name ... }]
  • vizDiv (optional): a selector where to place the whole thing (defaults to #alm)
• declare AlmViz object: var almviz = new AlmViz(options);
• initialize the Viz: almviz.initViz();

Example

options = {
		baseUrl: 'http://pkp-alm.lib.sfu.ca',
		minItemsToShowGraph: {
				minEventsForYearly: 6,
				minEventsForMonthly: 6,
				minEventsForDaily: 6,
				minYearsForYearly: 6,
				minMonthsForMonthly: 6,
				minDaysForDaily: 6
				}, 
		hasIcon: ['wikipedia', 'scienceseeker', 'researchblogging', 'pubmed', 'nature', 'mendeley', 'facebook', 'crossref', 'citeulike'],
		showTitle: true,
		categories: [{ name: "html", display_name: "HTML Views", tooltip_text: 'Total number of HTML page views for this article. These views are recorded directly within the system itself. Overall monthly view counts may also be available.' },
				{ name: "pdf", display_name: "PDF Downloads", tooltip_text: 'Total number of PDF views and downloads for this article. These views are recorded directly within the system itself. Overall monthly view counts may also be available.' },
				{ name: "likes", display_name: "Likes", tooltip_text: 'Likes found in social networks such as Facebook.' },
				{ name: "shares", display_name: "Shares", tooltip_text: 'Shares or bookmarks in social networks such as Facebook, CiteULike and Mendeley. In most cases, clicking on the number of shares will take you to a listing in the network itself.' },
				{ name: "comments", display_name: "Comments", tooltip_text: 'Comments are .' },
				{ name: "citations", display_name: "Citations", tooltip_text: 'Citations of this article found in CrossRef, PubMed and Wikipedia. In most cases, clicking on the citation count will take you to a listing in the referencing service itself.' }],
	}

d3.json('alm.json', function(data) {
	options.almStatsJson = data

	var almviz = new AlmViz(options);
	almviz.initViz();
});