{"id":2164,"date":"2012-11-07T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2012-11-07T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:24:00","slug":"kelly-hills-data-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2012\/11\/07\/kelly-hills-data-miner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Hills, Data Miner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelly Hills has been data-mining<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> – collecting and collating information about the frequency with which certain terms appear in paper titles in three journals: the JME<\/em>, Bioethics<\/em>, and the AJoB<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was going to say that the charts are not much use, but that they are pretty and quite cool; and I was going to add that their lack of utility doesn’t matter at all because\u00a0prettiness and coolness is sufficient to make them worth looking at.\u00a0 Not everything worthwhile is worthwhile because it’s useful, after all.\u00a0 Being a philosopher, I have to believe that.<\/p>\n

But then it occurred to me that there probably is some utility to them.\u00a0 Taken with some care, they help us to see what is held to be important by people publishing work – and, I suppose, they might also help decide which journals are more receptive to certain topics (or, conversely, which journals are saturated with them).<\/p>\n

Here’s what the JME<\/em>‘s chart\u00a0looks like:<\/p>\n

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The image isn’t perfect, of course: because size is a mark of brute numbers and the algorithm that generates the image isn’t sensitive to context, “ethics”, and “ethical” get separated, when the reality might not indicate that they merit separate consideration.\u00a0 “Euthanasia” gets only a small amount of attention – which tells us something about the heat-to-light ratios in debates on the topic.\u00a0 It also gives some support to John Coggon’s idea that it’s getting hard to find anything new worth saying in that particular field – though I’d’ve thought the same, and more, would apply in respect of consent, and that seems to generate a heck of a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

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Kelly Hills has been data-mining – collecting and collating information about the frequency with which certain terms appear in paper titles in three journals: the JME, Bioethics, and the AJoB. I was going to say that the charts are not much use, but that they are pretty and quite cool; and I was going to […]<\/p>\n

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