mb7419/egm

A python package for plotting Evidence Gap Maps using Plotly

egm

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Evidence Gap Maps(egm) are useful for visualizing research gaps. This library (extension of the Bubbly package) provides interactive and animated charts using Plotly, useful for plotting reasearch papers. The animated bubble charts can accommodate multiple variables viz. X-axis, Y-axis, time, bubbles (the research artifacts of title , abstract and doi) their size (similarity to research question) and their color in a compact and captivating way. Evidence Gap Maps (egm) python package is easy to use with plenty of customization, and is designed to work with plotly's offline mode useful in Jupyter Notebooks, Google Colab and Kaggle kernels.

egm package can also be useful in making a plot where two catagorical variable are to be plotted aganst each other as bins.

Dependencies

• Python 3.x
• numpy
• pandas
• plotly

Installation

pip install egm

Modes

There are two modes supported. Time can be included in both modes for a dynamic year wise plot.

1. Mode Random

The random mode is more display friendly and the plot in a bin is scattered evenly.

figure = evidencegapmap(dataset=pd, x_column='x', y_column='y', bubble_column='title_column',bubble_text='bubbletext_column', bubble_link='bubblelink_column', size_column='size_column', color_column='color_column',xbin_list=, ybin_list = , xbin_size=100, ybin_size = 100, x_title="X Axis Title", y_title="Y Axis Title", title='Evidence Gap Map for XYZ',scale_bubble=4, marker_opacity=0.8,height=900, width=1200)

2. NLP Mode

For the NLP mode, x and y coordinates are provided arrays and are transformed and plotted in the bin. The mode is useful for displaying the similarity and disimilarity of research papers

figure = evidencegapmap(dataset=pd, x_column='x', y_column='y',xy_column='xy_column', bubble_column='title_column',bubble_text='bubbletext_column', bubble_link='bubblelink_column', time_column='publish_year', size_column='size_column', color_column='color_column',xbin_list=, ybin_list = , xbin_size=100, ybin_size = 100, x_title="X Axis Title", y_title="Y Axis Title", title='Evidence Gap Map for XYZ',scale_bubble=4, marker_opacity=0.8,height=900, width=1200)

Usage in a Notebook & Example

Refer to this collab notebook for a basic working example with sample data

View an end to end working example here