Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center

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| name = CNS Center at IU|

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| type = Public |

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| founded = 2005 |

| location = Bloomington, IN |

| key_people = Katy Börner, Center Director |

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| industry = Data Analysis and Visualization Research |

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| homepage = [http://cns.iu.edu]

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The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center was founded in October 2005 by Professor Katy Börner at Indiana University, Bloomington. It emerged from the Information Visualization Lab at IU that focused on the analysis and visualization of data since 1999.{{Cite web|title = "Our History" - CNS Center Website|url = http://cns.iu.edu/history.html|website = |accessdate = 2015-09-08}} With the advent of CNS, the mission was broadened from providing a research lab to building an entity that would advance datasets, tools, and services for the study of biomedical, social and behavioral science, physics, and other networks. A specific focus of CNS is research on the structure and evolution of science and technology (S&T) and the communication of results via science maps.

The Center organizes international workshops and conferences, promotes network science and visualization at national and international initiatives, organizes and finances a weekly talk series on Network Science, holds an annual open house, hosts about 20 national and international visitors each year, and teaches regular workshops on its infrastructure and tools.{{Cite web|title = "Our Mission" - CNS Center Website|url = http://cns.iu.edu/mission.html|website = |accessdate = 2015-09-08}}

CNS is also the creative and administrative home of Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, an international science mapping exhibit. The collection features leading examples of knowledge domain mapping, novel location-based cartographies, data visualizations, and science-inspired art, all created by experts from around the globe.{{Cite web|title = "What is a Science Map" Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Website|url = http://scimaps.org/what_is_a_science_map.html|website = |accessdate = 2015-09-08|archive-date = 2015-09-11|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150911011149/http://www.scimaps.org/what_is_a_science_map.html|url-status = dead}}

One of the center's primary contributions is research and development of data and information visualization tools. Among these are included: the [http://cishell.org/home.html Cyberinfrastructure Shell (CIShell)], the [https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/user/index.php Science of Science (Sci2) Tool], the [http://nwb.cns.iu.edu Network Workbench], the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160702022842/http://sdb.cns.iu.edu/ Scholarly Database], the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161008093127/https://epic.cns.iu.edu/ EpiC Marketplace], [http://mapsustain.cns.iu.edu/geovis.html MAPSustain], and others.

In addition, CNS offers several courses at Indiana University on information visualization, structural data mining and modeling, user interface design, and human-computer interaction.{{Cite web|title = "IU Courses" - CNS Center Website|url = http://cns.iu.edu/courses.html|website = |accessdate = 2015-09-08}} In January 2013, CNS offered one of the first massive open online courses (MOOC) at Indiana University.{{Cite web|title = "Information Visualization MOOC to Launch 1/22/13" - SOIC News|url = http://www.soic.indiana.edu/news/story.html?story=Information-Visualization-MOOC-Launch-22-13|website = |accessdate = 2015-09-08}} This initial course, entitled [https://web.archive.org/web/20151219195120/http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/ Information Visualization MOOC (or IVMOOC)], attracted visitors from over 100 countries. Since then, the course has been offered yearly and there are plans for additional iterations in the future. The following year, the course spawned a companion text, Visual Insights, published by The MIT Press.{{Cite web|title = Börner, Katy, and David E. Polley. 2014. Visual Insights: A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.|url = https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/visual-insights|website = |accessdate = 2015-09-08}}