Mendeley's Data and Perspectives on Data Challenges

Mendeleys Data andPerspectives on Data Challenges Kris Jack, PhD Chief Data Scientist https://twitter.com/_krisjack

Overview➔ Whats Mendeley?➔ Why Run Challenges?➔ Mendeleys Challenges➔ Conclusions

Whats Mendeley?

➔ Mendeley is a platform that connects researchers, research data and apps Mendeley Open API➔ How are we building our community?

Mendeley provides tools to help users......organisetheir research ➔ Reference management ➔ Cite-as-you- write ➔ Full-text article search ➔ Digitalised annotations

Mendeley provides tools to help users... ...collaborate with one another...organisetheir research ➔ Professional research groups ➔ Social network ➔ Annotation sharing

Mendeley provides tools to help users... ...collaborate with one another...organise ...discover newtheir research research ➔ Personalised article recommendations ➔ Related research ➔ Research contact suggestions

Our community from a data perspectiveSocial network Personal libraries (~2M users) (~300M articles) Research groups Research catalogue (~175K groups) (~50M unique articles)

Why RunChallenges?

Why Run Challenges?➔ An important part of our mission is to make science more open

Why Run Challenges?➔ An important part of our mission is to make science more open “All the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has now – curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer‘s [...].

Why Run Challenges?➔ An important part of our mission is to make science more open “All the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has now – curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer‘s [...]. But a lot of the state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.“

Why Run Challenges?➔ An important part of our mission is to make science more open “All the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has now – curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer‘s [...]. But a lot of the state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the➔ We run challenges that scientists’ computers, and is aim to open up science currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle➔ Your skills in information those huge problems.“ sciences are valuable to us

MendeleysChallenges

PloS/Mendeleys Binary BattleChallenge: Build an application with our data, make science more open.Results: More details at http://dev.mendeley.com/api-binary-battle/

ScienceRec Challenge 2012Challenge: Build off-line system for scientific recommendations with our API and DataTEL data setResults: Will discuss today How to improve for the future?50K users, with at least 20 articles each More details at http://2012.recsyschallenge.com/tracks/sciencerec/

Conclusions

Conclusions➔ Mendeley makes tools that help researchers to: ➔ organise their research ➔ collaborate with one another ➔ discover new research➔ We are crowdsourcing a wealth of research data➔ Were opening it up to the world➔ And inviting you to participate

Were Hiring!➔ Data Scientist ➔ apply recommender technologies to Mendeleys data ➔ work on improving the quality of Mendeleys research catalogue ➔ starting in first quarter of 2013 ➔ 6 month secondment in KNOW Center, TU Graz, Austria as part of the EC FP7 TEAM project (http://team-project.tugraz.at/)➔ http://www.mendeley.com/careers/

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A Challenge for the Future?Challenge: Investigate how well algorithms perform in real-world settingsMotivation: Industry repeatedly finds that aggressive A/B testing is required because offline improvements do not necessarily translate to online improvementsProblem: Academia tends not to have access to large online communities Research groups (~175K groups)Solution: Industry runs A/B test with academic algorithms and reports resultsWhat about privacy? Use publicly available data Anonymise and aggregate results reported

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Mendeley's Data and Perspectives on Data Challenges

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